Adding a remote printer

[Andrew Young_2]

Hi

When attempting to create a remote printer connection and running:

lpadmin -pmyprinter -orm10.10.10.10 -orprint -mrmodel -v/dev/null -orc -ocmrcmodel -osmrsmodel

I get the following error:
lpadmin: can't open member file

I suspect its permissions somewhere but I can't find where.

HP-UX 11i PA-RISC

Thanks

Andrew Young

[Rajeev Shukla]

Use the following command

lpadmin -p$printer -orm -orp$printer -mrmodel -v/dev/null -ocmrcmodel -osmrsmodel

[Andrew Young_2]

Apart from a small typo in the remote spooler name thats what I did.

[Chris Shepherd_1]

Do you get the same error if you try adding the printer via sam?

[Andrew Young_2]

I tried sam first. Same error. Which is what makes me think it is directory permission somewhere. It works fine on our development box. The only difference is that we have moved /var/spool/lp onto a file sytem of its own because of the volumes we print.

[Robert-Jan Goossens · Accepted solution]

Hi Andrew,

Could you check the permissions of

# ls -lad /etc/lp
drwxr-xr-x 8 lp bin 1024 Oct 17 2003 /etc/lp
# ls -lad /var/spool/lp
drwxr-xr-x 4 lp bin 1024 Feb 17 16:02 /var/spool/lp

Regards,
Robert-Jan

[Andrew Young_2]

Hi Robert-Jan

It was the permission on the /etc/lp directory that were set to root:sys. I have changed it and it worked fine. Thanks for your help.

Regards

Andrew Young