Print error: Printer does not exist

From: doug_cooper (doug_cooper@vizzavi.net)
Date: Tue May 21 2002 - 09:35:53 EDT


Dear Sun-Managers,

I have an E5000 running Solaris 2.6 and have recently had
trouble printing to a remote printer. Attempts to send a
print job return message:

Error transferring print job 725
         check queue for (text@geb50j)

The printer is connected OK:

# ping geb50j
geb50j is alive

And lpstat reports correct information:

# lpstat -v GEB50JR1
system for GEB50JR1: geb50j (as printer text)
# lpstat -aGEB50JR1
GEB50JR1 accepting requests since May 21 14:28 2002

BUT lpstat -p gives this error:

# lpstat -p GEB50JR1
UX:lpstat: ERROR: Printer "GEB50JR1" does not exist.
          TO FIX: Use the "lpstat -p all" command to list
                  all known printers.

Attempts to enable the printer give this error:

# enable GEB50JR1
UX:enable: ERROR: Destination "GEB50JR1" is unknown to the
                  LP print service.

I am printing plain ascii text via lp. The printer has
worked fine for a long time, several months or even years,
but has just gone wrong yesterday. I can't find any
reference to these errors in the Sun documentation, so any
advice on how to fix this is much appreciated. I will
summarise.

Thanks
Doug
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