Very Computer

Hi all,

Just put 2.8 on our server and workstations without any major problems.  The
last step I was working on was configuring the printers.  I have a printer
attached to /dev/ecpp0 (parallel port) on one of the workstations.  That
workstation acts as a print server to everyone else.

Problem is, I can print from the attached workstation just fine, but print
requests from other machines sit on the queue.  The only way to get  them to
print is by rebooting the print server workstation.  Running lpshut and
lpsched doesn't seem to do it.

No doubt there's an easy solution.  I guess they all are when you have it.  
Thanks for any help.

Mike

If you added the parallel port printer with Admintool, it probably
started the old-style TCP listeners and they usurped the socket that
inetd was supposed to listen on.

This seems to be a bigger problem on Solaris 8 than it was on 2.6 and 7.
Perhaps something in the upgrade/install process kills inetd and restarts
it, which gives the TCP listeners their chance to misbehave.

Try shutting the listeners off:

  pmadm  -r  -p tcp  -s lp
  pmadm  -r  -p tcp  -s lpd
  pmadm  -r  -p tcp  -s 0         <-- that's the number zero

and see if printing from the other machines starts to work again
after a minute or so.

  -Greg
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