LPD Printing

[Peter Clarke]

Hi,

We have a queue on our Alpha ES40 machine and we have a separate queue on our unix machine both pointing at the same printer however this has caused problems with queues stalling etc...

So we have set up a new queue on the unix machine and pointed it at the alpha lpd is running but when we print from the unix box the alpha accepts the data but puts it to a log file and it doesnt come out on the printer??
I have found a log file in sys$specific:[tcpip$lpd] called tcpip$lpd_in_euraxp_1.log and is this file it gives me the error:

Failed to map remote user/host (pclarke@europaaix) to local account
Error : user !AS has no permission to print on this host

Anyone know what this means??

Cheers

Peter

[Wim Van den Wyngaert]

You need to decalre a proxy (ucx set prox) or remove the application proxy setting of the service (SET SERVICE LPD/FLAGS=NOAPPLICATION_PROXY).

Wim

[Peter Clarke]

Hi Wim,

This did'nt work still getting same error in the log file!!!

Anyone any idea's????

Regards

Peter

[Antoniov. · Accepted solution]

Hi Peter,
now I can't access to a LPD queue but if I remember LPD on vms create a printer que with specific processor; so I guess you could set protection command as follow:
$ SET QUEUE /PROT=(W:RMSD)

Antonio Vigliotti

[Wim Van den Wyngaert]

Peter,

Did you change the permanent db and restart the service (or tcp completely) ?

Wim

[Peter Clarke]

Antoniov,

Yes that has worked!!!

Cheers

Peter

[Wim Van den Wyngaert]

It might also be a case sensitivity problem in your proxy ...
In ucx (3.2 or 4.x) there were problems like that. You can flag your service with case (which stands for case_insensitivity). But it is unknown if lpd will use it.

Wim

[Peter Clarke]

Sorry Wim,

I think you were correct on this one it was'nt until i changed the protection on the queue that this worked as i stopped the queue and restarted it.I have since put the protection back to how it was and it still works so seems that you were correct.

Regards

Peter

[Wim Van den Wyngaert]

Which one was it : case insensitive or proxy simply missing ?

Wim

[Peter Clarke]

I removed the application proxy setting!!

Cheers

Peter