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  • 1.  Add a Remote Print Queue with Local Filtering Fails

    Posted Thu February 02, 2012 01:31 PM

    Originally posted by: yvallet


    with Smit i do not succeed to create a remote print Queue with local filtering

    IF 'with standard processing' i can create the queue
    but in this case 'qprt -Nxx' does not print xx times the doct
    and we cannot manager lot of parameters (page length, pitch, ...)

    IF 'with local filtering' the result is '0782-326 Not a valid printer type'
    for ALL printers (HP, IBM, Generic , etc)

    Attached : config AIX


  • 2.  Re: Add a Remote Print Queue with Local Filtering Fails

    Posted Sun February 05, 2012 08:06 PM

    Originally posted by: SystemAdmin


    It would appear that you have not installed the drivers for the 'lex2380-3' printer, hence your error message. Try using a vanilla style printer setting, for which you do have the drivers; e.g. hplj4+


  • 3.  Re: Add a Remote Print Queue with Local Filtering Fails

    Posted Mon February 06, 2012 10:22 AM

    Originally posted by: yvallet


    i have installed ALL drivers available with AIX cd-rom

    i have this problem with all printer


  • 4.  Re: Add a Remote Print Queue with Local Filtering Fails

    Posted Tue February 12, 2013 03:17 PM

    Originally posted by: SystemAdmin


    This has been a problem since at least AIX 6.1 TL3.

    It has been reported as a bug and a few APARs were opened for it already. Not sure if they gave a solution yet.
    http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IV27846

    It is related to choosing the "Local Filtering" option. If you select "Standard Processing" it works fine. I did some research a while back when we first encountered this error and it seems to be related to the printer definitions database and how it has defined what drivers/types are allowed to be associated with what type of filters.


  • 5.  Re: Add a Remote Print Queue with Local Filtering Fails

    Posted Wed February 20, 2013 12:38 PM

    Originally posted by: SystemAdmin


    Hi,
    this is a bug in the latest versions of AIX 6.1 and by the look of it AIX 7.1 as well, specific to remote print queues with local filtering. It seems to be an issue related to how the options chosen in smit get fed through to the script that actually create the print queue. As yet there doesn't seem to be a fix available, but after a bit of experimentation, I have found that if you run the command that smit builds, but just leave off the final “-p FALSE” option, it works OK. It seems that IBM have assigned “-p” twice to do 2 different things.

    So in this case an examoke command to run is:
    /usr/lib/lpd/pio/etc/piomisc_ext mkpq_remote_local -p '<printertype>' -D asc -q '<queuename>' -h '<remotehost>' -r '<remoteqname>' -t 'att' -4 'yes' -T '600' -C 'FALSE'


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