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Printing to remote printers with names longer than 14 chars. Possible?

 
Edgar Matzinger
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Printing to remote printers with names longer than 14 chars. Possible?

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it is possible to print, under HP-UX, to print to a remote printer with a queue name longer than 14 characters? That queue is located on a W2K machine. Why? The company I work for hs defined a standard for printer/queue names, these names are 15 characters long. Now I know that a printer name defined locally on a HP box can not exceed 14 characters, but does the same restriction apply to remote queue names?

Thanks, Edgar.
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Steve Steel
Honored Contributor

Re: Printing to remote printers with names longer than 14 chars. Possible?

Hi

The spooler code is written for 14 and all I can say is try it. I suspect you will have problems.


There are 2 solutions :
1) Modify your remote queue name to be only 14 characters long.
2)Choose another spooler which supports longer names. DPS for instance.


steve Steel
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Pete Randall
Outstanding Contributor

Re: Printing to remote printers with names longer than 14 chars. Possible?

As far as I know, Edgar, you're limited to 14. I'm not sure about network printers defined through hppi, but I know that defining remote printers through SAM has this limitation. Maybe you should have had some input into this standard?

Pete

Pete
Cheryl Griffin
Honored Contributor

Re: Printing to remote printers with names longer than 14 chars. Possible?

Edgar,
There is a SAM limitation that you used to be able to get around by tweaking /usr/sam/lib/C/lp.ui but there is also a limitation (that you see with remote printers) because it requires a change in lpspool. Currently lpspool cannot handle queue names greater than 14 characters. There's a change request for this to be addressed ER #5003342543 and #5003422477.

Best Wishes,
Cheryl
"Downtime is a Crime."
Edgar Matzinger
Advisor

Re: Printing to remote printers with names longer than 14 chars. Possible?

Best thing for now was to change the remote queue names to a maximum of 14 characters. Thanks anyway for the answers provided.

cu l8r, Edgar.