Printing problem. Help please?

[bisware]

Hello,

We have a unix openserver 5.0.6
and we print to a network printer with ip-adres 192.168.2.240

some time printjobs are not comming out. Then i run lpstat -a L3
and i get the message:
lpstat: lost connection with 192.168.2.240
i can ping the address and get response but i can't print.
with lpstat -o L3 i can see all my print jobs. and i get a message sending to 192.168.2.240

I tried disabling and enabling L3.
i tried lpshut and lpsched. nothing works. the only thing i can do is delete the printer and create a new one. Then everything works fine again for a while.

Has anybody had this problem before?

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[motoslide]

Which method are you using to print to that IP address?
Is it HPNP, LPR/LPD, netcat, ???
The troubleshooting steps differ, so we need to start there.
Also, can you tell us what device is sitting at that IP address (Make/Model). Is that the same subnet as for the SCO box, or is it across a router?


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[bisware]

we use LPR/LPD for printing.
We have the problem with different versions of a hawking printserver.
Also it doesn't matter if it is across routers or in the same subnet. But in this case the ip of the server is 192.168.1.2

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[motoslide]

SCO is pretty weak with LPR/LPD printing. The next time you get the symptom, instead of removing and reinstalling the printer, try this:

# kill `head -1 /usr/spool/lpd/L3/lock`
# echo "Printer has been reset"|lp -dL3

If it works, all the pending jobs will print, followed by a little 1-liner (Printer has been reset). This basically kills the LPD child process which is confused and starts a new one to process that directory. For most of our Clients, I save those 2 commands as a script they can run (i.e. L3.reset).




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[bisware]

Motorslide thanks for the response.
i will try that the next time, and if it works i will create a script for it.

thanks.

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