Sharing printers over dtc

[Andy Dzimira]

Hi all,
I'm running a D230 class HPUX10.20 box that has 6 printers attached through DTC ports. I bought a new rp2405 server and am trying to configure my printers on the new box. Can I set the rp2405 spooler to use the printers attached to the old D230 box? I know that I should go to jetdirect but my budget is tight. I would like to somehow just share my existing printer setup without having to revamp everything.
Thanks for any info.

[Jeff Schussele · Accepted solution]

Hi Andy,

Sure. Just define them on the RP2405 as remote (not network) printers.
Just use the name of the remote system as the host name & the printer name on that system as the queue name.
Nothing to it.
Make sure the 2405 can resolve the IP of the remote host.

Rgds,
Jeff

[eran maor]

Hi

if you have this printer define in your old D-class why dont you define a remote printer in the rp2405 and give the name of the system and the name of the printer and do all spool in the old computer .

you can do it with SAM .

if you cant use it it is recommend to by a jet-direct card for the printer , i know that the price is not so high .


just one more tip , 10.20 will be supported only for 3 month ahed

[Andy Dzimira]

Wow..Those were quick responses..Thanks!
I added the printers as network printers and they work great when I send jobs to them.
However, when I do a lpstat -v it shows all the printers as /dev/null remote to: on 192.168.1.1.
Is there a way to get a unique device name for each printer? I need to point my database spooler at the device path to enable printing from within the database.
Thanks...

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi (again) Andy,

Nope, sorry.
Since there is no actual device being physically printed to on this system, there can be no dev to define.
Can the DB accept a command?
lp -dptr_name

Rgds,
Jeff