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Author Re: UPDATE: Printing from TRU64 Unix to Windows 2000 Printer Queue
Michael D. Ober

2005-11-10, 6:03 pm

I have a sniffer on my router - there are no packets arriving through the
router. The printer is a PCL printer, not postscript. TelnetSym (port
9100) printers are working just fine. However, Windows 2000 Servers cannot
be configured to be a port 9100 queue.

========================================
==
conejos> lpq -PWAKE
conejos: Thu Oct 27 18:25:34 2005:
Rank Pri Owner Job Files Total Size
1st 0 mike 12 /etc/printcap 4518
bytes


Windows 2000 LPD Server
Printer \\10.96.253.1\Printer4

Owner Status Jobname Job-Id Size Pages Priority
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
#conejos> ls -al /usr/spool/lpd18
total 33
drwxr-xr-x 2 daemon daemon 8192 Nov 9 13:28 .
drwxr-xr-x 25 root system 8192 Oct 26 13:00 ..
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root daemon 0 Oct 27 18:30
..daemon_running_on_conejos
-rw-r----x 1 root daemon 4 Nov 9 13:28 .seq
-rw-rw---- 1 daemon daemon 85 Nov 9 13:28 cfA012conejos
-rw-rw---- 1 mike daemon 4518 Nov 9 13:28 dfA012conejos
-rw-r--r-- 1 root daemon 4 Oct 27 18:31 lock
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root daemon 27 Oct 27 18:25 status
-rw-rw---- 1 daemon daemon 9 Nov 1 13:38 tfA009conejos

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===
Mike.



"rlmobil" <rlmobil@gmx.de> wrote in message
news:opszzvncv59cwxr8@dedre-ddzyyy0j.emea.thermo.com...
> Mike,
>
> IMO, the printer responds to the lpq, but does not receive the data.
> Check, if they are in /usr/spool/lpd18 . Each printjob should fill it with
> one more file.
> Did you try printing on the Tru64 with a non-Postscript printer installed
> locally?
> Again, install Ethereal on the 2000 to check, if the data reach the 2000
> box.
>
> Rainer
>
> On Wed, 9 Nov 2005 13:37:59 -0700, Michael D. Ober
> <obermd.@.alum.mit.edu.nospam> wrote:
>
>
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