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From: krishnan@uceng.UC.EDU (Ramaswamy Krishnan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Cannot remote print from Ultrix to HP840
Keywords: remote print, lp
Message-ID: <1969@uceng.UC.EDU>
Date: 22 Aug 89 22:00:17 GMT
Organization: University of Cincinnati
Lines: 82

After a few unsuccessful weeks with the HP Response Center, this had
had to come to the HP gurus.

The problem : Remote print jobs sent from a VAX8650 (Ultrix 3.0)
              reach our HP840 (HP-UX 3.1), but do not go to the
	      default printer connected to the HP840.

Has anyone else encountered similar problems?
Any suggestions/pointers on causes/solutions would be greatly appreciated.

I have appended some info for those of you who might be interested.

(yes, we do run the remote lp daemon :-)

- krishnan
  krishnan@UC.EDU  or uccba!uceng!krishnan
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   Here is a typical "ls -l /usr/spool/lp/request/lp" from HP840 :

   For a remote print job from the Ultrix :

total 4
-r--r-----   1 lp       bin          141 Aug 21 02:59 cA1923uceng
-r--r-----   1 lp       bin          124 Aug 21 02:59 dA1923uceng

   For a "local" print job from the HP :

total 4
-rw-rw-rw-   1 root     bin            0 Aug 21 03:01 cfA006ucunix.san.uc.edu
-r--r-----   1 root     bin          153 Aug 21 03:01 dfA006ucunix.san.uc.edu
-r--r-----   1 root     bin          124 Aug 21 03:01 tfA006ucunix.san.uc.edu

   The "d*" files above contain the data, and the headers are in the
   files cA* for the local print jobs, and tfA* for the remote print
   jobs.
   
   The contents of the header file cA1923uceng (local print job) are :

Huceng
Pkrishnan
Jlp-1923
Cuceng
Lkrishnan
B
K1
O
T/users/con/krishnan/.login
FdA1923uceng
fdA1923uceng
UdA1923uceng
N/users/con/krishnan/.login

   The header file tfA006ucunix.san.uc.edu (remote print job) contains :

Hucunix.san.uc.edu
Pkrishnan
J.login
Cucunix.san.uc.edu
Lkrishnan
fdfA006ucunix.san.uc.edu
UdfA006ucunix.san.uc.edu
N.login

   Thus there seem to be some differences in the file ownership/protections
   and contents. To me it appears that the temporary file "tf*" from the
   Ultrix is being converted to "cf*" and due to some problem with that
   (the "cf*" files are 0 bytes), the jobs do not go to the printer.

   Also, the /usr/spool/lp/log file does not contain any information
   about the remote job.

   The response center asked us to reload some of the filesets from
   the last update - they suspected the problem to be with some file
   protections and that we may have altered some protections after we
   did the update - but this was of no use.

   Thanks for your time.

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Ramaswamy Krishnan         |College of Engineering ; University of Cincinnati
krishnan@UC.EDU      (ARPA)| "computers are intelligent
uccba!uceng!krishnan (UUCP)|   - but just don't know that yet" - fortune