by Perhaps someone out there has solved or known this problem that we are
experiencing with solaris and our sun printers. We have around 8 Sparcs
connected to the network. On one of them is connected a Sun printer, and this
station is used as the printer server for that printer.
Now, all other workstations contain a printer entry for this printer, and the
printer server specified as the remote station to handle print jobs -- nothing
odd there. However, we are only able to print from 2 or 3 of the computers.
It seems that, at one time before I came here, all of them worked.
I have isolated the problem, but I am not sure how to fix it. The problem is
that lpsched and LpNet cannot seem to contact the print server from the
non-working workstations. When I send a print job and check lpstat -p <printer
name>, it gives me two entries. The first is: Job blah blah has finished.
The second is the print job I just sent. The error logs indicate that the
socket is busy. Therefore, it seems to me that for some reason, the
workstation sending the job cannot talk to the remote print server and seems to
think there is still some job being eternally handled.
Any ideas?
- Kyle
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Kyle M. Forbes
Systems Administrator
Center for Advanced Land Management Information Technologies
(CALMIT)
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