ITEM: CF7855L

Setting up a print queue to IBM network print server

ENV:
AIX 4.1.4
7015-R24

DESC:
We just purchased IBM 6400 printer with IBM print server device on my
ethernet.  How do I setup a queue?

ACT:
We can ping the server
We can telnet to the server on TCP port 515, it's lpd daemon is
listening.

We setup a remote queue to the server using local filterning and
an arbitrary name of the remote queue on the server.

qchk -Premoteq

Our local queue shows READY and the server comes back with 
"No entries." but when a job was queued, nothing printed.

We printed out the config page of the server and got the 
"printername" from the config and changed the rq = line in /etc/qconfig
to use the name of the queue on the remote server.

The printer is online and ready... You sent a job and the queue
shows RUNNING but nothing ever prints...

I did an iptrace -a -b -p printer -d 198.138.29.81 and then I sent
a short job: echo AAAA|enq -Premoteq Then kill the iptrace and do
ipreport /tmp/trace > /tmp/report

What happens is something like this:

AIX               PrintServer
SYNC   ->
       \<-         SYN|ACK
ACK    ->

Request 
to send  ->
job to
queue 

        \<-       ACK    Data=00

Request 
to send
163 byte
dfA file  ->

         \<-      ACK (but no 00 to say OK....)
        
                 This ACK repeats every 10 seconds but we never send
any reply back... Presumably because we never have a 00 (OK) in the
packet with the ACK....

Stepped customer through the instructions on page 74 of the
IBM Network Print Server Administrator's manual under...

ftp ibm_print_server_ip
ftp id = root, password = pass
ftp get ibinstall
ftp quit

Once you have downloaded the configuration script FROM THE PRINT
SERVER, run the setup script:

sh ibinstall

This will build the print server configuration and upload the 
configuration to the print server as well as create the remote
queue to the print server for you.

This printed and all is working fine.  For further assistance with
the IBM print server itself call 1-800-358-6661

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