OpenVMS/Multinet printserver

[Yost, Donald]

I'm running Multinet 4.4a on an HP alphaserver running OpenVMS v7.3-2.
I've been asked to share/serve a printer to the Windows PC's on our
network. I've done the LPD setup described in Chapter 16 of the manual.
Nothing shows up in the queue. Has anyone done anything like this?
Thanks.

Don Yost
Information Systems
Martha Jefferson Hospital
[phone]





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[Bennett, Carl]

Don,

If you run a TCPDUMP on port 515, does it show anything
coming in from the network?

If not, you might not have the LPD service enabled.



You could also do an MU SHOW /CONN = ALL and search for
printer to make sure the service is up.





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I'm running Multinet 4.4a on an HP alphaserver running OpenVMS v7.3-2.
I've been asked to share/serve a printer to the Windows PC's on our
network. I've done the LPD setup described in Chapter 16 of the manual.
Nothing shows up in the queue. Has anyone done anything like this?
Thanks.

Don Yost
Information Systems
Martha Jefferson Hospital
[phone]

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[Verne Britton]

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Don Yost
Information Systems
Martha Jefferson Hospital
[phone]
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I mean no offense here ... make sure the PCs are using an LPR client
or port definition in Windows... Multinet by itself does not accept
incoming connections as a "share" (SMB?) or on port 9100 :-)

A long time ago I had to play with the "type" on the incoming LPD
(or is it called LPR?) connections to force it to be binary ...=20
naturally with a smart O/S like VMS there is a big difference
between a binary and text file ... unlike many Unix's or even some
things on a Windows PC ...

But recently I believe most things show up binary (fixed length
files, no CC) in the temp files Multinet makes ... it matters most
when Multinet is reading that temp file to send it to the actual
printer ...

For older Windows (Win98 for example) there is at least one free
LPD driver ... plus I can't remember if LPD is a standard part
of XP (a choice on "port") or if you have to install the Unix-printer
optional module (or some other optional Windows module) ... it's
been a long time since I had to do it :-)


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[Selden E Ball Jr]

Post by Yost, Donald
I'm running Multinet 4.4a on an HP alphaserver running OpenVMS v7.3-2.
I've been asked to share/serve a printer to the Windows PC's on our
network. I've done the LPD setup described in Chapter 16 of the manual.
Nothing shows up in the queue. Has anyone done anything like this?
Thanks.

We have many lpd print queues served by Multinet used
by various types of systems, including Windows.

One potential stumbling block is the username mapping.

If your Windows user accounts don't have corresponding
VMS user accounts, then you have to create a default account for them
to use and define the logical which specifies that it is to be used
for print jobs from unknown usernames. e.g.
$ DEFINE/SYS/EXEC "MULTINET_LPD_DEFAULT_USERNAME" "PRT"

If that's not the problem, what entries are in the log file of
the LPD server? That log file might provide some help in tracking
down the problem. (e.g. unauthorized connection, unrecognized
printer queue name, etc)

We use OPCOM to log Multinet's connections.
To configure our LPD connection logging, I used the command
$ MULTINET CONFIGURE/SERVER to select LPD and set
LOG-ACCEPTS and LOG-REJECTS to be TRUE and LOG-FILE to be OPCOM

ACCEPT-HOSTS, ACCEPT-NETS and REJECT-BY-DEFAULT also were
defined as needed by our environment.

Does this help?

Selden