HPUX 11 Distributed Print Service

[James Phillips_1]

How do I allow users to use printers in HPDPS?

I am using the "Basic Environment".

I have created the following:
-Supervisor
-Spooler
-Queue
-Physical Printer
-Logical Printer

As root, I can access the printers using lp and lpstat.

Regular users can not.

Any help would be appreciated.

Jim Phillips

[John Poff]

Hi Jim,

Try looking at the 'pdpr' command. That command issues print jobs to logical printers. We use HPDPS here and that is how we send jobs to it.

JP

[Alex Glennie · Accepted solution]

Qu O/S ?

can users or could they print using just lp commands ...

most likely cause :
permissions on the /etc/pdclientd.conf file should be 644.

If that don't help do they receive pdpr errors at all ?

[James Phillips_1]

Thanks Alex,

I changed the permissions on
/etc/pdclientd.conf and it works.

I'm really happy !!

Jim

[John Poff]

I wouldn't get too happy about HPDPS. It's being deprecated by HP. We're in the process of moving to something else.

JP