11i connectivity to openspool node

[Bob Brown_1]

We have openspool running on a host running hpux 10.20. We don't want to migrate away from openspool just yet...

Any ideas how we can have a script running on hpux 11i (obviously this node does NOT have openspool on it) put a job into the openspool queue on the 10.20 node?

thanks.
-Bob

[Bill Hassell]

I am fairly sure that OpenSpool will accept incoming jobs from remote systems. Just setup remote printers on the 11i system that point to the 10.20 system. Your OpenSpool expert can make any adjustments in the config files (if necessary).

[Bob Brown_1]

I don't have printers on the 11i system... I want the 11i system to print to openspool queues on the 10.20 system.

(and we don't have an openspool expert...just me, who is the hpux person and the only one here who knows anything about openspool).
thanks.

-Bob

[Bill Hassell]

Just run SAM on the 11i system and add one printer as a remote printer. SAM needs 3 items: local queue name, remote system (10.20) name, and remote printer name. In a normal HP-UX system, lpstat -v would list all the printer names and this may be the case for Openspool. If lpstat doesn't report any printer names, use the name of an Openspool printer. Then finish adding the printer in SAM and test it with a small file on the 11i system:

lp -dremprn /etc/profile

[Bob Brown_1]

So, for a printer on 10.20 openspool that we reference (with openspool definitions) as "np -qprintquename" we could define it as remote via sam?

openspool printers don't end up in lpstat...they need to go through openspool to get all of the queue definition stuff.

[Bill Hassell]

That would be my guess. I don't have any Openspool docs to see how it supports remote printing.