I asked:
> I have two questions relating to printing remotely onto
> a AlphaStation 200 running OSF1 V3.0b with a locally attached
> HP LaserJet 4MP.
>
> 1) How do I allow a Sun Solaris machine access to the printer ?
> lpstat -t on the Sun reports that the printer is faulted, and correctly
> reports that 'we don't have access to the printer 'blah'' if I
> take out the Suns hostname from /etc/hosts.lpd on the Alpha, so
> it's not that.
>
> This is urgent...any suggestions gratefully received.
>
> 2) When I do a lpstat -t on another Alpha, it says 'hostname.domain'
> doesn't have access to remote printer 'blah', which is not suprising
> since it has translated the first character of the hostname to a 'p'.
>
> ie. my machine is called 'fermi' and the error report says
> 'permi.domainname' can't access remote printer....
>
> If I put an entry into /etc/hosts.lpd of 'permi' on the print server
> everything is fine.
The answers were:
1) Basically you can just ignore the 'faulted' message reported by
lpstat on the Solaris machine; printing works fine. No fix was
suggested.
2) Should have realised this myself, but the hostname had been
incorrectly entered by our Computer Centre into the DNS.
Hostname lookups (from /etc/svc.conf) on the Alphas query bind *before*
they ask the NIS. Perhaps the other way round might be better ?
Thanks to:
Hellebx Knut <bgk1142_at_bggfu2.nho.hydro.com>
fabrice_at_cisk.atmos.Ucla.EDU (Fabrice Cuq)
and apologies to the 3rd person, I deleted their mail before I recorded it...
Ian
Received on Tue Feb 21 1995 - 03:58:55 NZDT