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Re: remote printer down ?

 
Nabil Boussetta
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remote printer down ?

i have many remote printers (under Win2000) configured on a HP-UX server.

some printers may go down sometimes (down and busy). i'd like to khnow why they go down? and what to do



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Arunvijai_4
Honored Contributor

Re: remote printer down ?

This document should help you for trouble shooting,

http://docs.hp.com/en/J2716-90016/ch06s11.html
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Thayanidhi
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Re: remote printer down ?

Hi,
Since this are all remote printers the unix host doesn't have direct control over it. rlpstat should give some details.

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RAC_1
Honored Contributor

Re: remote printer down ?

Remote printers are dumb printers for hp-ux. At most looking at lp log file and output of rlpstat will give some info.
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