Help with printing to Terminal servers from HP-UX

[Jeff Souter]

We have just come across a batch of Specialix Jetstream 8500 terminal servers, we wish to use these to connect Dot matrix printers through their serial cards.
We currently use Iolan+ terminal servers using the ioland -C -T command.
We have tried using the above command without success on the jetsreams i have also tried LPD and no luck either.
Has anyone had any experience with this equipment and HP-UX?
Thanks in advance.
Jeff

[Olav Baadsvik]

Hi,
I do not have any experience with Jetstream
terminal server, but I have some experience
with other Terminal-servers.

I advice to check out the ddfa product
that comes with HP-UX. Although it is
designed for HP's DTC terminal-server I know
it has been used also with other types of
terminal server.

man ddfa
for more details

Regards
Olav

[Jeff Souter]

Thanks olav, i have had a look at ddfa, unfortunately it wont work in my case because i cannot link it to our 3rd party software running on our machine, at present i think i can only use ioland (ioprint) and LP Spooler.
Jeff

[Olav Baadsvik]

Hi again,

It may be a misunderstanding here if you by
link mean /bin/ld.
ddfa is not sofware you link with other
software.
ddfa works like this (very short):

. By editing a config file you specify
ip-address / port-number to access on
the terminal-server.
. When starting the ddfa software a
pseudo-device file is created for each
ip-address/port specified. For each
such pseudo-device file a ocd process
is started.
. You define a printer for the lp spooler
using SAM and specify the pseudo-device
file.

Regards
Olav

[Jeff Souter]

I think i get you know, do you have any examples on how to set this up from sratch? Or any good web sites for more info.

Jeff

[Olav Baadsvik]

Hi,

I do not have any exmples other
than what you will find on the system.
At the end of man ddfa you will find
pointers to the exmple-file on the
system.
I have set up ddfa on a machine a long
time ago, but I do not have the config-files
from that time available. Anyway the
man-pages are quite good.

Regards
Olav

[Jeff Souter]

Ok thanks for your time Olav.
If any other users have any input to my problem please feel free to post.

Thanks
Jeff

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Jeff

Adding New Printers to the UNIX Network


2. Add, using vi, new device in /etc/ddfa/dp (note that the letter ???O??? is used in the spider address ??? ie spid3O05 (three, oh, zero, five).
3. Check that an ocd is not already running for the new port ???
Ps ???ef|grep ocd|grep spid3O05.
4. If no ocd is running then - Start new ocd in /dev/telnet/ (see ps ???ef | grep ocd)

# ocd -n191.1.0.205 -f/dev/telnet/spid5O07 -bxx -p3026 -c/etc/ddfa/pcf

5. If ocd is added then check that it is running ??? ps ???ef|grep ocd
See also # man ocd
check port config on spider

To reset and restart the ocd DPP software:-

kill -15 `ps -e | grep ocd | awk '{print $1}'` (Kill all ocd processes (do not use ???9 as device files will not be cleared).

/usr/sbin/dpp /etc/ddfa/dp ???k (Full ocd reset)


change variable DDFA=0 to DDFA=1 in /etc/rc.config.d/netdaemons to enable after a reboot.



HTH

Paula