Guys,
This is probably a stupid question, but it is getting urgent and I don't have
any more time to play with it.
We are trying to print to IP printers for the first time. This looks like it
should have been a straight forward change; CMS users used to send output to
type SNA3270P printers and now they want to send it to IP attached printers
instead. There seems to be many different ways of specifying the printer name
and IP address of the target printers and I chose what looks like the simplest.
In the RSCS config I have coded -
LINKDEFINE LPR1 TYPE LPR AST FORM *
PARM LPR1 EXIT=LPRXONE EP='C=LPR' ITO=0 PR=QEEPLE22 US=YES HOST=10.120.72.245
LINKDEFINE LPR2 TYPE LPR AST FORM *
PARM LPR2 EXIT=LPRXONE EP='C=LPR' ITO=0 PR=QEEPLE29 US=YES HOST=10.120.73.222
I am using the LPRXONE exit supplied in RSCSEXIT LOADLIB and the RSCSLPR CONFIG
supplied with TCP/IP, because I don't (think I) have any additional
requirements.. RSCS starts the printer links OK and then immediately
deactivates them, presumably because I have specified ITO=0.
So far, so good (?), but when I try to send a print file to them using LPR
exec, RSCS rejects the file because it has an invalid destination address. I
get the same result whether I use the printer name or the IP (host) address.
LPR exec insists on using the default linkid (LPR) coded in the exec. I'm
obviously missing something in the configuration of these things. Do I *need* a
nicknames file ? I thought that these were one of the many options, rather than
compulsory.
Regards
Ian Jones
UKOSG - Infrastructure Specialist
EDS
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