PCNFS - printing from a pc to a system SunOS 5.2
2007-12-25 8:34:00
Thank you Andrew Cogswell for responding to my query and solving the
problem. He wrote:
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Check your permissions for /dev/null, it should be 777 or 666.
As /dev/null is a linked file to /devices/pseudo/mm:null, this should be 666.
Both owned by root.
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I found my /dev/null link ok but my /devices/pseudo/mm:null had a permission
of 600 and owned by lp. How this happened i do not know? Once i changed it to
andrew's suggestion i printing from a PC using PC-NFS works just fine now.
--- rwh
--- Ron Henderson
--- SUNY@ALBANY
Orginal Question:
> Managers:
>
> I am getting a error message when I am printing from my PC using PCNFS 5.0 to
> a SUN (SunOS 5.2). The sun is a pcnfsd server. I have a local printer attached
> using NewsSprint and three other remote BSD printer types.
>
> I can print to any of the BSD printers thru this server. My problem comes when
> I want to print to the locally attached NewsSprint printer. I get the following
> error:
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> Your request HPmarx-159 destined for HPmarx
>
> The job title was: 159-1
> submitted from: marx
> at: Mon Nov 8 14:00:39 1993
>
> encountered an error while printing on printer HPmarx.
> Printing stopped with an exit code of 1.
>
> Reason for failure:
>
> /etc/lp/interfaces/HPmarx: /dev/null: cannot create
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>
> marx -- is the SUN
> HPmarx -- is the locally attached printer name.
>
>
>
> Things I have checked:
>
> 1) my /usr/spool/pcnfs dir is shared properly for my pc running PCNFS
>
> 2) I have installed the latest jumbo printer patch 101025-07
>
> 3) From another SUN running 4.1.3 i can print to this printer remotely
>
> 4) As i said above i can print to any of the remotely configured BSD type
> printers thru this server.
>
>
> Any suggestions to this problem would be appreciated.
>
> --- rwh
> --- Ron Henderson
> --- SUNY@ALBANY
> --- rwh@nldn.albany.edu
>
>
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