only root can print
 

Hi all,

I'm experiencing a weird problem here.

I'm on solaris 9 and the print jobs are spooled local and then send to a
hp jetdirect box.


If I try to print as a normal user:

$ banner hallo | lp -d hp5mis
request id is hp5mis-7632 (standard input)

The print job turns up in the lpstat -t command for a few seconds and
then vanishes. I also can see the job in the /var/lp/logs/requests. It
looks really like it was sent to the printer, but it wasn't. (Can't see
anything with snoop)
Also couldn't find anything in the /var/adm/messages.


And, if I do the same as root, everything looks the same, but it works.

Any ideas?

Thank you

Wolfgang

Re: only root can print
 

In article <d6ctl3$2cb$1@newshost.mot.com>,
wolfgang mair <wolfgang.mair@fci.com> wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I'm experiencing a weird problem here.
>
>I'm on solaris 9 and the print jobs are spooled local and then send to a
>hp jetdirect box.
>
>
>If I try to print as a normal user:
>
>$ banner hallo | lp -d hp5mis
>request id is hp5mis-7632 (standard input)
>
>The print job turns up in the lpstat -t command for a few seconds and
>then vanishes. I also can see the job in the /var/lp/logs/requests. It
>looks really like it was sent to the printer, but it wasn't. (Can't see
>anything with snoop)
>Also couldn't find anything in the /var/adm/messages.
>
>
>And, if I do the same as root, everything looks the same, but it works.

the obvious suggestion is to look for permissions issues on files
or directories, but i assume you'd have thought of that.
you could do a pkgchk to get a quick and dirty answer to permssions,
if you can figure out which packages are involved.
hmmm. don't really know.

j.


>
>Any ideas?
>
>Thank you
>
>Wolfgang


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