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List:       opensolaris-printing-discuss
Subject:    Re: [printing-discuss] Printing to IPP Server
From:       Norm Jacobs <Norm.Jacobs () Sun ! COM>
Date:       2007-05-14 17:25:34
Message-ID: 4648BF01.9030200 () Sun ! COM
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Maurice Jeter wrote:
> I see, thank you for the clarification Norm.  So we would do this on our
> print server for all of our networked printers.
>
> For our "client" Solaris machines, that will be sending the jobs to this
> server, can we also use the lpadmin command to setup the printers -- but
> instead of the printer name, specify the server, print queue name, and
> port 631?
>   
For client systems, you would point them at the server (not the printer) 
with
    # lpadmin -p queue -s server

IPP client support isn't in Solaris until Nevada around build 44.

    -Norm
> Thanks again
> Maurice
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Norm Jacobs [mailto:Norm.Jacobs@Sun.COM] 
> Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 2:51 PM
> To: Maurice Jeter
> Cc: printing-discuss@opensolaris.org
> Subject: Re: [printing-discuss] Printing to IPP Server
>
>
> Sorry for the duplicate, I didn't see this on printing-discuss for some 
> reason and replied privately.  I am resending to cc the list in case 
> others are interested.
>
> The problem is that the IPP listener only interacts with local print 
> queues in Solaris 10.  Your print queue configuration has printing going
>
> directly to your network attached printers instead of through a local 
> queue.  If you create local print queues for your printers, you should 
> be able to print from IPP.
>
> Ex:
>    # lpadmin -p savprinter -v /dev/null -m netstandard -o protocol=tcp 
> -o dest=savprinter:9100
>    # accept savprinter
>    # enable savprinter
>    # lp -d savprinter /etc/motd
>
> Some variation of this should work for you.  You can also create the 
> queues via the printmgr(1m) though the menus "printer" -> "New Network 
> Printer...".  If you have any further problems, let me know.
>    -Norm
>
> Maurice Jeter wrote:
>   
>> Hello All,
>>  
>> We have a Solaris server that print jobs are generated on, which are
>> sent to a (Solaris) print server via lp.  From here, the jobs are sent
>>     
>
>   
>> to the network printers.
>>  
>> The problem we have is that if one printer goes offline or is
>> unresponsive, all the print jobs for that printer -- and other 
>> printers -- get hung up.
>>  
>> So we are looking into using IPP to see if that works better.   The 
>> problem is that there isn't much documentation on using IPP.   Using 
>> the Sun documentation on it, we were able to setup an Apache based IPP
>> server and have the listener service running (on port 631) and 
>> everything looks ok.  However, we cannot figure out how to send jobs 
>> to this server, via IPP, from another Solaris box.    Can anyone point
>>     
>
>   
>> me to additional documention, and/or examples?
>>  
>> This is the documentation we've been using:
>>  
>> http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/features/articles/using_ipp.jsp
>>  
>> But we just can't tell from this, if we actually have our server and
>> clients configured /correctly/  for IPP.  (We are able to send jobs 
>> using lp, via port 515 however).
>>  
>> Interestingly, we've talked to two Sun engineers on the topic, and
>> they had no idea.  
>>  
>> Thank You
>>  
>>
>> Maurice Jeter
>>
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