Remote printer Configuration

[Joe Kanakaraj]

Hi,

I have sevaral remote printers configured from a HP UX machine. We were physicaly movig the printers to a diffent location hence the IP's were changed. My remote printers are configured via a dummy IP and Name which acts like a local printserver.

E.G> printer tsq1 is configured to route through tsq1srv(dummy IP and Name)

Once the change was made and a print is fired the print falls into the queue but there is no print coming out and it is dormant in the queue. This seems to be happening to all the remote printers. Please note that I have not changed the Dummy IP's for the dummy printservers. I really do not know how The guy before me has configured it but it was working fine. I do not have any problems configured as network printers via hppi. THis is a problem for all Non-HP printers mostly epson dot matrix/line printers and epson lasers.

If anybody can tell me what is wrong or what I am doing wrong. It would be of great help. WIndows is printing fine to the same printers via the network.

Regards,

Joe

[generic_1]

The ip of your printer probably changed make sure it is right in the printer and in the pritner config on your server as well as the name. Update /etc/hosts too to be safe.

[Joe Kanakaraj]

All COnfigs are fine, and I made sure I changed the IP's in the /etc/hosts file.

Like I said an lpstat -t | grep tsq1 shows the following output

#lpstat -t |grep tsq1
device for PHQCHQ: /dev/null
remote to: PHQCHQ on tsq1srv
tsq1 accepting requests since Jul 30 17:29
printer tsq1 now sending tsq1-7631 to phqchqsrv. enabled since Jul 30 18:41
tsq1-7631 root priority 0 Jul 30 17:35 on PHQCHQ

Can any of you make anything out of the above output.

CHeers

[Rick Garland]

All looksfine in this output. Check the print queue on tsq1srv