Hassles Printing to a remote LPS32

From: Mike Hatz <mhatz_at_raven.phs.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 14:50:46 -0800 (PST)

The lps32 we have is a printserver run by all of our vaxes. I am the lone
osf/1 weenie.

I am trying to print to an lps32 with an address of 1.2.3.4 (for example).

I have the following /etc/printcap entry:
lp|lp0|0|tstlps:\
        :lf=/usr/adm/lperr:\
        :lp=:\
        :rm=tstlps:\
        :rp=tstlps:\
        :sd=/usr/spool/lpd:

tstlps is set for the correct ip address. I am on a DEC 3000X running
osf1 3.0 with the base save set installed.

When I try to print I get:

no feedback on the command line, but when I run lpstat:

[Raven]/usr/users/mhatz> lpstat _Ptstlps
Requests on lp:
raven.phs.com: Thu Jan 12 11:42:08 1995: waiting for tstlps to come up
Rank Pri Owner Job Files Total Size

connection to tstlps is down

But I know the connection isn't:
PING tstlps.phs.com (1.2.3.4): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 149.111.60.28: icmp_seq=0 ttl=30 time=5 ms
64 bytes from 149.111.60.28: icmp_seq=1 ttl=30 time=5 ms
64 bytes from 149.111.60.28: icmp_seq=2 ttl=30 time=4 ms
64 bytes from 149.111.60.28: icmp_seq=3 ttl=30 time=3 ms
64 bytes from 149.111.60.28: icmp_seq=4 ttl=30 time=3 ms
64 bytes from 149.111.60.28: icmp_seq=5 ttl=30 time=4 ms

Thanks for any hints.
Received on Thu Jan 12 1995 - 17:51:07 NZDT

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