Sam - Remote printer problem.

[Fabio Tinteri]

When i add a remote printer in a HP K460-XP (HP-UX 11.00) with SAM the system tell me:

The remore printer "Laser_A (whose location is Laser_A on print.mydomain.it)" already exists on this system

On the system aren't installed any printer.
Please help me.
Best regards
Fabio

[MANOJ SRIVASTAVA]

Hi Fabio


What is the o/p of lpstat -t . Does it show the printer if not then the orgianlly the printer was not removed cleanly and has some remanents in /usr/spool/lp/interface or requests directory . If you cant do a lpadmin -x then i suggest is to reinstall the printer and remove it manually .

Alternatively you can delete the files associated with this printer and reinstall the printer.


Manoj Srivastava

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Fabio,

Do
find / -name Laser_A
and if it returns any files then that's indicative of what Manoj has pointed out - that Laser_A existed at one time & was not cleanly removed.
You could then do - after stopping the spool with lpshut
find / -name Laser_A -exec rm {} \;
to remove them all if the lpadmin -x Laser_A does not succeed in removing them.

HTH,
Jeff

[Mark Greene_1]

This is due to a bug in script /usr/sam/lbin/lpmgr

to fix, replace this line:

if lpstat $1 > /dev/null 2>&1

with this line:

if lpstat -p$1 2>&1 |grep -v non-existant >/dev/null 2>&1

and then you should be able to add the printer.

HTH
mark

[Tom Danzig]

Mark is correct. I went through this a couple of months ago. If you are running distributed print services along with the standard lpsched, it causes the "lpstat " command to return 0 instead of 1 after the actual printer status returns the correct 1.

Mark's listed script fix will correct your problem.

[Jeff Schussele]

Well, I learned something new today.
I'd never run across this.
But then, I don't normally use SAM to add printers.
Thanks, Mark & Tom.

Rgds,
Jeff