installing a new printer on headless sco openserver 5.0.6 machine

[mmlenz]

It looks to me like the previous printers were installed without using scoadmin and I'm curious how to go about doing this for a new printer on SCO OS5.0.6 Its a remote printing queue and I thought there was a simple way to specify the device/logical name and hostname of the printer and be done with it. advice? I'm assuming its some form of the lpadmin command right?

 

[PHV]

man rlpconf

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[unixchick]

If the printer is listed in DNS or in a hosts file on the server, you can use the lpadmin command to add it like:

/usr/lib/lpadmin -pname -v/dev/null -m model

You can also use a -i with the path to the interface script file instead of -m model (scripts in /usr/spool/lp/model).

After you run lpadmin, you need to do an enable and accept on the printer.

Hope this helps.

 

[mmlenz]

its kinda strange.. we've got a few printers defined on this machine already. here is the lpstat -t output.

# lpstat -t
scheduler is running
system default destination: hplaserjet
device for gestbw: /dev/null
device for hplaserjet: /dev/null
device for INVOICE: /dev/null
device for STD: /dev/null
device for panlocal: /dev/lp0
device for okidata: /dev/tty1a
hplaserjet accepting requests since Wed Feb 06 14:23:05 2002
INVOICE accepting requests since Thu Feb 07 09:48:59 2002
STD accepting requests since Thu Feb 07 10:41:07 2002
panlocal accepting requests since Thu Feb 28 18:03:12 2002
okidata accepting requests since Mon Mar 04 17:52:36 2002
gestbw accepting requests since Wed Mar 23 11:39:11 2005
printer hplaserjet is idle. enabled since Wed Feb 06 14:23:05 2002. available.
printer INVOICE is idle. enabled since Thu Feb 07 09:48:59 2002. available.
printer STD is idle. enabled since Thu Feb 07 10:41:07 2002. available.
printer panlocal is idle. enabled since Thu Feb 28 18:03:12 2002. available.
printer okidata is idle. enabled since Mon Mar 04 17:52:36 2002. available.
printer gestbw is idle. enabled since Wed Mar 23 11:39:22 2005. available.
hplaserjet-15093 ladsoe 19904 Mar 22 15:42


invoice, std and hplaserjet are really all the same printer.

The printer that this one is replacing is panlocal. panlocal was a panasonic b/w multi-funcition printer that worked from this machine, but IS NOT in dns and is not in the hosts file.


hrrm.. any ideas how i can diagnose this? I mean with or without the model specified it should send something to the printer right?

 

[PHV]

What is the content of /etc/printcap ?

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[mmlenz]

jack squat

# cat /etc/printcap
# Remote Line Printer (BSD format)

one commented line.. thats it.. all other printers work just fine. let me state again that i didn't setup this machine its a legacy system. infact I don't even work for the company that owns it, I work for their sister company owned by the same CEO. asked me if I'd poke around on it a bit and see if i could setup this new gestetner dsm651sp printer that replaced a pansonic. this gestestner (ricoh) is pretty amazing supports printing using just about every protocol known to man.

There is a hplaserjet (mentioned in earlier posts) that is the default print queue for this machine and its just on a jetdirect box. works perfectly, just trying to replicate that with this new printer.

i thought i read somewhere that there was a way to duplicate a queue. hmm, I'll betcha that gestetner functions as a laserjet just fine cuz.

 

[PHV]

I don't think a ricoh printer can be used with hpnp like a jetdirect.

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[mmlenz]

I'm printing to the Gestetner (Ricoh) (we're in the same building, I'm on the same network) using Fedora Core 3 with the PCL 5e driver via Jet Direct. Its possible, the question is how to get it setup on SCO OS 5.0.6

 

[PHV]

scoadmin -> Printers -> HP Network Printer Manager -> 6) Add printer to spooler

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[mmlenz]

i already said its a headless server and all the other servers were installed headless (no x) .. does scoadmin have a curses interface or something? I thought it was X only.

 

[PHV]

scoadmin have a curses interface or something?
Sure, it's a VTCL script ...

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[mmlenz]

ok.. i was trying to connect to the machine over telnet and it wouldn't run the curses interface it wanted to run the X interface. getting on the actual box allowed me access to the curses scoadmin. just now the regular admins of that box showed up and and are going mess around with it. i told em good luck

 

[apeasecpc]

Regarding the telnet scoadmin, were you logged in as root, and were you using the right terminal emulation settings?

Some printer setups don't have a printcap entry, they just have an interface file, for example I have a number of samba printers set up this way. You should look at the file for the old printer under /usr/spool/lp/admins/lp/interfaces.