Dohhh... (Insert picture of Homer Simpson here)
Rich Shoemaker wisely pointed out that I should check inetd.conf to make
sure that the printer (lpd) line was not commented out. Well, it wasn't commented
out, it wasn't even there! I know that I did not remove the line, and I certainly
could not have
done in by accident on two systems. I would never remove a line from inetd.conf
anyway, I would just comment it out. Since remote printing worked before, the line
must
have been there in the base Solaris 9 OS. The only thing that I can think of, is
that the
April 8 patch bundle must have removed it, as bizarre as that sounds. The weird
thing is,
even though remote printing is now O.K., "lpstat -t" for users other than root still
gives
the error:
server inova600.chem.umanitoba.ca not responding
Rolf Kyburz (Varian) also pointed out that "Shared" in the /vnmr/devicenames file
must be set to "No" for the printer entries - for obscure historical reasons. As
someone
once pointed out: "God could not have made the world in 6 days if he had an
installed
base".
Thanks for the help!
-Kirk
Kirk Marat, Ph. D., NMR Facility Manager
Dept. of Chemistry
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, MB, R3T 2N2, CANADA
ph. (204) 474-6259 FAX: (204) 474-7608
kirk_marat_at_umanitoba.ca
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Received on Wed May 12 2004 - 19:43:03 MST