PSF/AIX installation questions?
ITEM: RTA000107155
Q:
ABSTRACT: PSF/6000 installation questions?
SEARCH ARG: aix psf6000 remote printing
TOPIC THREAD: IX
RISCSYSTEM_SOFTWARE
OTHER_SUPT_RISCSYSTEM_LPPS
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This is a question for PSF/6000. Customer will be installing a
RS/6000 and PSF/6000. They will be attaching a 3900-001 channel attached
printer to the RS/6000 via 370 Channel Emulator Adapter. The RS/6000
is on an Ethernet. The network consists of Sun & PCs (WIN95)...
The form of the input data is AFPDS, PS, PCL and ASCII.
According to the PSF installation manual, the channel attached printer
is installed and the queue name is defined. This is for local printing
and testing with "enq -P (printername) /etc/motd"
For remote printing from the clients, the manual outlines the steps
update the client and server which in this case would be the RS/6000.
So the /etc/hosts are updated on each client to reflect the RS/6000
IP address. The RS/6000 server is updated to reflect all the clients.
The /etc/hosts.lpd on the server is updated. (IS THIS NEEDED?)
The lpd daemon is stated on the server.
The remote queue is added for each client. Needed is a queue and
queue device. This queue references the PSF print queue that was defined
for the channel printer.
So, the remote client sends off a print job and it is routed to the
PSF print queue and printed on the 3900-001 printer.
So if the channel printer queue is called 3900psf
and the remote queue is sun1; when we send a job to sun1 (those on the
sun server), the job will get routed to the 3900psf and print.
I can have other remote queues with different names pointing to the
3900psf. For example "sun2 or accounting or whatever"
Do I have an understanding which will work or am I missing something?
Appreciate you assistance and review of this analysis...
A:
I think you've got the gist of it, although there can be variations,
and you may want to consider some additional customization relating
to PostScript and PCL jobs.
1) Make sure you obtain and install the PTFs for PSF/AIX, because the
S/370 Channel Emulator/A adapter will not work under AIX V4 without
them.
2) Your local set-up sounds correct. Note the PSF queue doesn't do data
stream sniffing; it can tell if an incoming file is AFPDS, but assumes
that if it's not AFPDS then it must be ASCII. There's no automatic
detection of PCL or PostScript, so you may wish to review the PSF for
AIX Print Administration Guide in the chapters for Customizing PCL and
Customizing PostScript to learn how to set up local queues that will
invoke the transforms for you. (You may also need to customize the
transform files for your installation--I'm referring to ps2afpd.cfg
and ps2afp.cfg for PostScript and the equivalent files for PCL--
particularly if your 3900 does not have the AFIG and DPE features
installed. On the other hand, if your 3900 does not have those
performance enhancement features and possibly additional memory, your
customer will probably not be happy with the performance of printing
the PostScript and PCL output there; the output of those transforms
is bitmapped image, and without those features the files will be large
and slow.)
3) For remote printing, you would only need to edit /etc/hosts (or
the equivalent files on the Sun and Windows workstations) *if* your
customer is not using Domain Name Services. If your customer is using
DNS, then the various systems can probably find each other through the
Name Servers.
4) The purpose of the /etc/hosts.lpd file on the RS/6000 is to grant
or preclude remote hosts' access to printers owned by the RS/6000.
If you do not explicitly grant access here (either by individual remote
client name for selective access or by adding the "+" sign to grant all
remote hosts access) or in the /etc/hosts.equiv file (which grants
broader access--not just printing), then your print jobs from your
remote clients will be rejected ("Your host does not have line printer
access") by the lpd daemon.
5) Whether or not you add a queue on the remote clients depends on
the remote client. For example, if you had a remote RS/6000 client,
you would set up a remote queue to point to the PSF queue on the
PSF server. For Sun, you can set up remote queues, or you can use
an enhanced lprafp command that is provided with PSF for AIX to print
from the command line; there are other libraried items that discuss
this in greater detail or you can see the README.lpr file in the
/usr/lpp/psf/utils/lpr directory.
Note that if you have configured multiple queues on the PSF/AIX side
to automatically invoke the various transforms, then you may need
multiple queues on the remote clients as well.
I hope this helps. Please reopen if you have additional questions.
S e a r c h - k e y w o r d s:
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pcl install sun lpr lpd remote /etc/hosts.lpd access line printer afp
lprafp client permission
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