Intermate 100 manual General Printing Problems for AIX, Checking and Using the Ipds Connection

AIX: General Printing Problems for AIX

7.4.2.Checking and Using the IPDS Connection

You can check the connection by using the enq command to place jobs in the queue.

enq -P'psfqueue' -odatat='AFPDS' /home/afpjobs/afpguide.afp

You can also use the command smit psf_data_type_sel to enqueue the job.

7.5.General Printing Problems for AIX

Check the following areas, if you encounter problems when printing from an AIX system and the general troubleshooting procedures listed in “Troubleshooting” [page 245] have not helped.

1Check the BOOTP setup in the/etc/bootptab file.

•Did the print server receive a host name and IP address?

2Try to refresh or stop and start the Inetdaemon

(stopsrc -s inetd and startsrc -s inetd).

3Check that the BOOTP server is active.

•use smit inetdconf to verify.

•use smit mkinetdconf to append BOOTP.

4Are the host name, IP address and hardware address set up correctly?

•see /etc/hosts for host name / IP address relation.

•use arp -afor hardware address / host name or IP address relations.

5LPD: Is the queue correctly configured?

•use smit, qchk, lpq or lpstat.

•see /etc/qconfig

You may need to refer to the AIX manual Problem Solving Guide and Reference, document no. SC23-2204, chapter 8

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