Local printer setup with the Client

[Sandip Ghosh]

We are having one HP-UX 10.20 Box with some network printers.

Now we want to setup a parallel printer with the client PC. Do you have any idea how to configure it to get the printing from HP-UX?

Sandip

[A. Clay Stephenson · Accepted solution]

You should be able to setup a 'Remote' printer (not a network printer) using SAM. For 'host' use the hostname of the PC and the 'Printer' is the name of the print queue on the PC.

[Helen French]

Hi Sandip,

Set up a remote printer using SAM. The PC's hostname should be entered to the /etc/hosts file and set the remote location as the PC's hostname. The printer should be pre-defined and installed on the PC first. Use the local queue name as the remote printer name.

HTH,
Shiju

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Hi again:

One last and hopefully obvious point. You must 'share' your printer on the PC.

[Kelli Ward]

SAM is the easiest way to go. In SAM:
Printers and Plotters->
Print Spooler->
Printers-> (I can't remeber the exact name of this)

(New Window)
Actions->
Add remote printer->

(This will pop up another window to add info)
Printer name: (Whatever you wish)
Remote system name: (hostname of print server)
Remote Printer name: (must be the same name as the server printer)

(The rest are options. I use, Allow anyone to cancel requests and make this system default)

That should about do it.
(Note: If you view the Sam Log, you can get good information about what sam did. You can view this from Options-> View Sam Log-> after creating the printer.)
Good luck,
Kel

[Kelli Ward]

Oh! I almost forgot.
The hostname and ip addresses of all client systems must be correctly entered in the /etc/hosts file of the server and the Print Server hostname and ip address should be in the /etc/hosts of each client.
Then, be sure to test 2-way communication by ping on the server and clients.
This will save you a lot of troubleshooting headaches should anything go wrong.
Good luck again,
Kel

[Sandip Ghosh]

Thanks everybody for your quick response.

I have configured the printer as adviced by you through SAM. It is printing fine from the PC. It is not printing from Unix Box. It did generate the print request. but in lpstat -t it is giving as follows :

printer bl_xerox is idle. enabled since Mar 1 15:48
fence priority : 0
connection to 204.68.218.213 is down

where bl_xerox is the printer name and the IP address is of the PC with whom printer is connected. I have added the PC IP in the /etc/hosts file. it is pinging from both side. It is showing up in nslookup also.

Do I need to start any service in my local PC to accept the lp request send by the Unix host?

[Sandip Ghosh]

Sorry to mention , my PC is running on NT

[Patrick Wallek]

You must have TCP/IP Printing Services installed on your WinNT box and have the TCP/IP Print Server service started.

[Helen French]

Hi Sandip,

You have to enable TCP/IP printing services in the Windows NT system. If it is HP-UX, then the remote daemon name is - rlpdaemon.

HTH,
Shiju

[Sandip Ghosh]

Thanks everybody for your precious help!!!!!

The ultimate points are:
Setup Local Printer
Configure it to Share to all
Install Micrsoft TCP/IP Printer Services (for NT)


Then configure the Printer from HP-UX Box as described above through SAM

Printers and Plotters->
Print Spooler->
Printers-> (I can't remeber the exact name of this)

(New Window)
Actions->
Add remote printer->

(This will pop up another window to add info)
Printer name: (Whatever you wish)
Remote system name: (hostname of print server)
Remote Printer name: (must be the same name as the server printer)

Sandip

[Sandip Ghosh]

Forgot to mention

The Print services In NT will not start automatically. You have to start it manually and then you have to configure for autostart through control panel-> services -> Microsoft TCP/IP Print Service.

Sandip