lpstat : connection to station2 is down

[Kong Kian Chay]

System : HP-UX 10.2

From Workstation "station1",
#lpstat -t

scheduler is running
...
device for printer2: /dev/null
remote to: printer2 on station2
...
connection to station2 is down

#ping station2 (O.K)
#telnet station2 (O.K, can login)
#nslookup station2 (O.K)
#nslookup (O.K)

From "station2" where is printer2 is defined :
#lp -dprinter2 file1.txt
--> no problem, gets printed.

How can I resolve the "connection down problem" ?

NOTE :
* All other Workstations which have the same printer definition as "station1", no such problem. Problem exists only on "station1".
* Have already tried :
-- lpshut then lpshed on both stations
-- reboot on station1
-- Delete then re-define printer2 on station1

[Stefan Farrelly]

When you restart the lp scheduler on station-1 enable logging;
lpsched -v -a

Then when you submit a job on station1 to the printer2 queue check the log in /var/adm/lp (tail log), whats the return code from the remote lp call to station2 ? It should say somethink like;
rc=4, or bad status.....

This should help diagnose what the problem is.

[Andreas Voss]

Hi,

you could check if in /etc/services the line

printer 515/tcp spooler

is not commented.
If so uncomment the line and reinitialize inetd with:

inetd -c

Regards

[Kong Kian Chay]

Stefan & Andreas

* line "printer 515/tcp spooler" in NOT un-commented in /etc/services
* have tried "lpshut" then "lpsched -v -a", then send a printout. Result :
-- no error at all in /var/adm/lp/log
-- lpstat -t shows :
station1: waiting for queue to be enabled on station2

NOTE : All other Workstations have no problem printing to "printer2" on "station2". Have also
justed tested 3 other workstations. No problem.

[Kong Kian Chay]

Sorry, the 1st line should be :
* line "printer 515 ..." is NOT commented in /etc/services. That is, it is active.

[Stefan Farrelly]

Hmm. Sounds like your printer config on station1 is screwed up. You know printer2 is aok on station2 as others can print to it.

So, first thing to try is create a new queue on station1, call it something like printer2new, point it to printer2 at station2 and try a print.

If this doesnt work then youre going to have to look at cleaning out all of /usr/spool/lp and reloading the printer fileset (PrinterMgmt.LP-SPOOL) using swinstall.

[Animesh Chakraborty · Accepted solution]

Hi,
See the link:
http://us-support.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=4e44ae7e1b8fcfacdc/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=200000024646255

Best of luck
Animesh

[Kong Kian Chay]

chmod 4555 /usr/sbin/rlpstat /usr/sbin/rlpdaemon /usr/sbin/rlp

---> solved the problem !!