moving printers from a system to another ( printer mirror)

[federico_3]

I need to define many many printers ( actually defined on a 10.20 machine) to a 11.00 machine. Is there the possibility to perform this task rapidly? I did like this ( following some suggestions):
into SAM -> printer and plotters -> lp spooler -> save/restore spooler configuration. Then, Actions -> Save spooler configuration. This will write all your printer defs to /var/sam/lp. Tar/copy this directory to the new server's /var/sam/lp directory. Go into the new server's SAM -> printers and plotters -> lp spooler -save/restore configuration. Select Actions -> restore spooler configuration. Doing like this the directory /etc/lp/interface is empty....

How can i proceed on to have the printers defined an functioning on the new server


Federico

[Rainer von Bongartz]

do you have the following ??

cd /var/spool/lp

ll | grep interface

lrwxrwxrwt 1 root sys 17 Aug 6 2001 interface -> /etc/lp/interface

if you dont't have this symbolic link but a regular directory interface then /etc/lp/interface will of course be empty

Regards
Rainer

[steven Burgess_2]

Federico

Check /var/sam/lp on the 10.20 server. Does this area have interface file ?

If not, make a copy of that and move across also. I suppose it does defeat the object of a 'quick' move though

Will be interested to see how this is resolved if the above does not help

Regards

Steve

[federico_3]

I have the symbolic link .. How come the interface directory is empty?

[federico_3]

Steven,

the interface directory under /var/sam/lp on the 10.20 server is empty....Is it normal??

[Ravi_8]

Hi,

when the printer is added, the kernel will be modified and the machine reboots, when you are moving/copying the /var/lp file to another machine only the files will be copied, but the kernel of that machine is unaware of the printers. I think you need to add those printers to machines one by one.

[steven Burgess_2]

Federico

We don't actually use lp in our environment, so can't give you experienced knowledge. But
according to our man rafeeq ( i'm at home studying)

/etc/lp/interfaces

This direcory contains programs that are used to format printed data of a particular type of printer.

Here is the key :-

The printer Model/Interface is the name of the program that will be used with the printer. The model or interface names are present in the /usr/lib/lp/model directory. If there is no interface programme for your printer you can use a dumb model, but in this case you will not be able to use all of the printers capabilites

When you add a printer, the appropriate program is copied from /usr/lib/lp/model to the dir /etc/lp/interfaces. While copying, the program is renamed to match the printer name.

So

When you add a printer , you can give whatever name you like

lpadmin -pfederico1 -mhplj4 -v/dev/lp

The command adds a printer named laser on the device file /dev/lp. The INTERFACE programme used for this printer is hplj4 (HP LASERJET4)

I/You would presume that all this is done when you initially used sam to copy the spooler details from save spooler configuration option.

I can't remeber where the scripts are held for sam utilites - haven't got a workstation at home just a PC. Find it and have a look to see what it actually does. Yu will then have your answer as per what actions are taken

Hope this helps

Steve

[Yogeeraj_1]

hi federico,

try transferqueue script found in: /opt/hpnp/bin/

Read document: TRANSFER.UNX in same directory for more details.

Worked for me when i moved from HP-UX10.20 to HP-UX11.0

hope this helps
Cheers
Yogeeraj