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Network Printing

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From: Basil Holloway
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 06:16
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Trying to get a HP LaserJet, called 4500dup, on my P2P network to work
on a Sparc Ultra2 Solaris 9 system.
After reading many Sun books and searching net I cannot find out why it will 
not print.
Here are various things I have looked at.

# ping 192.168.0.1  is alive  my router
# ping 192.168.0.109  is alive  my network printer 4500dup
# ping 4500dup        is alive
Jobs I think are getting into the queque via the # lpstat -t print out 
below.
One of the things I cannot understand is the info in #lpstat -p 4500dup 
below.
You will notice in the listings below there is another printer, lex3000, on 
Sparc Ultra2
connected via a parallel cable. It is working okay.

# lpstat -r    scheduler is running

# lpstat -a
_default accepting requests since Wed 06 Oct 2004 07:38:23 PM EST
4500dup not accepting requests since Tue 17 Jul 2007 01:53:12 PM EST -
unknown reason
lex3000 accepting requests since Wed 06 Oct 2004 07:38:23 PM EST

# accept 4500dup
destination "4500dup" now accepting requests

# lpstat -a
_default accepting requests since Wed 06 Oct 2004 07:38:23 PM EST
4500dup accepting requests since Mon 23 Jul 2007 02:19:37 PM EST
lex3000 accepting requests since Wed 06 Oct 2004 07:38:23 PM EST

# lpstat -p 4500dup
printer 4500dup waiting for auto-retry. available.
exec exit fault

# lpstat -t
scheduler is running
system default destination: lex3000
system for _default: ultra2 (as printer lex3000)
device for 4500dup: /dev/null
device for lex3000: /dev/printers/O
_default accepting requests since Wed 06 Oct 2004 07:38:23 PM EST
4500dup accepting requests since Mon 23 Jul 2007 02:19:37 PM EST
lex3000 accepting requests since Wed 06 Oct 2004 07:38:23 PM EST
printer lex3000 is idle. enabled since Wed 06 Oct 2004 07:38:23 PM EST. 
available.
printer 4500dup waiting for auto-retry. available.
exec exit fault
4500dup-4 root 175288 Jul 16 14:59
4500dup-5 root 175288 Jul 16 14:59
4500dup-12 root 181802 Jul 23 14:21

# lpstat -p 4500dup -l
printer 4500dup waiting for auto-retry. available.
exec exit fault
Form mounted:
Content types: postscript
Printer types: unknown
Description: HP LaserJet 4500
Connection: direct
Interface: /usr/lib/lp/model/netstandard_foomatic
PPD: /usr/lib/lp/model/ppd/HP/HP-Color_LaserJet_4500-Postscript.ppd.gz
On fault: no alert
After fault: continue
Users allowed:
(all)
Forms allowed:
(none)
Banner page never printed
Character sets:
(none)
Default pitch:
Default page size:
Default port settings:
Options: dest-192.168.0.109, protocol-tcp

# lpadmin -p 4500dup -F continue

# enable 4500dup
printer "4500dup" now enabled

As a last resort I cancelled all the old job items out of the queque, but 
still no luck.

Would really appreciate some help.

Thanks
Basil
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