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From: paul@prcrs.UUCP (Paul Hite)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Cannot remote print from Ultrix to HP840
Summary: works fine for us
Keywords: remote print, lp
Message-ID: <170@prcrs.UUCP>
Date: 25 Aug 89 14:17:01 GMT
References: <1969@uceng.UC.EDU>
Organization: PRC Realty Systems, McLean, VA
Lines: 34

In article <1969@uceng.UC.EDU>, krishnan@uceng.UC.EDU (Ramaswamy Krishnan) writes:
> 
> 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.

We have no problems with remote printing.  Our main printer is attached to
our 850 and our VAX (running Ultrix 2.2) can print to it.  Before we got our
850, the VAX had the main printer and our 835 and 840 were able to print on
the VAX's printer with no problem.

Here is our current /etc/printcap entry on the VAX:
lp|local line printer:\
	:lp=:rm=prcrs:rp=lp:sd=/usr/spool/lpd:lf=/usr/adm/lpd-errs:
	              ^^^^^
	              |
	              note the explicit printer selection

It sound like you have omitted the "rp=lp" and want the lp software to find
the default printer on your 840.  This seems to fail.

BTW, our 850's lp was defined without using the -ob3 option by accident but
everything seems to work anyway.  All of the HP's on our network use 4 digit
request numbers and the VAXEN use 3 digit request numbers.  I expect that
something would break if a VAX was doing the printing.

According to my notes, the only trouble that I had with remote printing
was that the System Admin manual specifies "-ocm rcmodel" and "-osm rsmodel"
but the embedded spaces MUST be removed to get the lpadmin command to work.

Hope this helps.

Paul Hite   PRC Realty Systems  McLean,Va   uunet!prcrs!paul    (703) 556-2243
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