System Administration Guide: Advanced Administration

How to Check Printing From a Solaris Print Client to a Solaris Print Server

  1. Check the basic functions of the LP print service on the print server, if you have not done so already.

    For instructions on checking basic functions, see How to Check the Basic Functions of the LP Print Service. Make sure that the printer works locally before trying to figure out why nothing prints when a request is made from a print client.

  2. Check the basic functions of the LP print service on the print client, if you have not done so already.

    On the print client, the printer has to be enabled and accepting requests before any request from the client will print.


    Note –

    For most of the following steps, you must be logged in as root or lp.


  3. Make sure that the print server is accessible.

    1. On the print client, send an “are you there?” request to the print server.


      print_client# ping print_server
      

      If you receive the message print_server not available, you might have a network problem.

  4. Verify that the print server is operating properly.


    # lpstat -t luna 
    scheduler is running
    system default destination: luna
    device for luna: /dev/term/a
    luna accepting requests since Jul 12 14:26 2001
    printer luna now printing luna-314. enabled since Jul 12 14:26 2001. 
    available.
    luna-129            root               488   Jul 12 14:32
    #

    The above example shows a print server up and running.

  5. If the print server is not operating properly, go back to step 1.