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[Brook Miller]

We remote print to a W2k server running LPD by Hummingbird, the users would like to be able to see the user that submitted the job via the windows printer queue. All that shows up is SYSTEM if the job is from HP-UX.
I think this is a deficiency of Hummingbird.

I offered to turn on banners on rlp to show the user, but the banners print after the job.

Anyone know how to get the banner to print before the job prints?

[Frank Slootweg]

Yes, this looks to be a problem on the (Hummingbird) (r)lpd(aemon)(1M) side.

To be sure, (temporarily) set up a remote printer from the HP-UX system to itself.

Are you using rlp(1M) directly or, as is the normal case, from the /usr/lib/lp/model/rmodel script? In both cases, how do you invoke rlp(1M) c.q. lp(1), i.e. which options and parameters?

[Brook Miller]

We use the standard remote printing on HP-UX 11, which calls rlp from the /etc/lp/interface scripts.

Without options it prints a banner , but prints it out after the job, is this the standard way it works? Seems counter-intuitive to me.

I captured the options , nothing but the jobID and spool file are sent to rlp.
-Ihpthirdw-1278 /var/spool/lp/request/hpthirdw/dA1278hpd370s

[monasingh_1]

I think it may be just a configuration on W2K server for banner details.

[Andrew Cowan]

This could be something to do with PCNFSD. If you don't run this, and share files with a PC(s), then they always show as being owned by "unknown". It maybe that this also effects RLPD as it shares the filesystem to submit the print.

This is just a guess, but I think its on the right lines.

[Andrew Cowan]

This could be something to do with PCNFSD. If you don't run this, and share files with a PC(s), then they always show as being owned by "unknown". It maybe that this also effects RLPD as it shares the filesystem to submit the print.

This is just a guess, but I think its on the right lines.

[Andrew Cowan]

This could be something to do with PCNFSD. If you don't run this, and share files with a PC(s), then they always show as being owned by "unknown". It maybe that this also effects RLPD as it shares the filesystem to submit the print.

This is just a guess, but I think its on the right lines.

[Frank Slootweg]

> Without options it prints a banner , but prints it out
> after the job, is this the standard way it works?

As far as I know, it is not, but to be sure, why don't you (temporarily) set up a remote printer from the HP-UX system to itself, as I suggested?