LDAP-UX Client Services B.04.15 Administrator's Guide

Engineering Lab printer-model: Hewlett Packard laserjet Model 2004N
printer-service-person: David Lott
Since the local printer name, remote hostname, remote printer name, and the printing protocol
information are still the same, the LDAP Printer Configurator will not change the current remote
LP printer configuration for laser2.
Example 3:
The system hostA.hp.com is retired. The Laserjet 2004 printer is now connected to system
hostC and set up as a local LP printer lj2004. The administrator should update the printer
object by changing the value in printer-uri attribute. The following shows the updated
information of print objects:
dn: printer-name=laser2,ou=printers,dc=hp,dc=com
printer-name: laser2 printer-model: Hewlett Packard laserjet Model
2004N printer-service-person: David Lott
The current remote LP laser2 printer configuration is removed from the client system, and the
new laser2 printer configuration with new remote hostname information is added to the client
system. In fact, if either remote hostname or remote printer name of printer-uri attribute is
modified, the printer configurator will remove the current remote LP printer configuration and
create the new printer configuration with the updated resource information.
Example 4:
The remote LP printer, laser2, no longer supports LPD printing protocol. IPP printing protocol
is implemented instead. The administrator updated the printer object by changing the printing
protocol to IPP. The following shows the updated printer objects in the directory server:
dn: printer-name=laser2,ou=printers,dc=hp,dc=com
printer-name: laser2 printer-uri: ipp://hostC.hp.com/lj2004 printer-location:
Engineering Lab printer-model: Hewlett Packard laserjet Model 2004N
printer-service-person: David Lott
IPP printing protocol is not supported by the LP spool printing system. The only action that the
LDAP printer configurator will take is to remove the current laser2 printer configuration on
the client system.
Example 5:
The administrator created a new printer object in the directory server as below:
dn: printer-name=laser8,ou=printers,dc=hp,dc=com
printer-name: laser8 printer-uri: lpd://hostD.hp.com/lj81003
In this example, the printer configurator adds a new remote LP laser8 printer configuration
to the client system.
However, if the user attempts to remove the laser8 printer configuration manually, the printer
configuration will no longer be managed by the printer configurator. The user has to recreate
the printer configuration manually in case the laser8 printer is needed. The printer configurator
does not try to create the printer configuration even though the printer object of laser8 still
exists in the directory server.
If the user manually adds a remote LP printer configuration to the client system, the new printer
configuration will not be managed by the printer configurator. The user has to remove the printer
configuration manually if the remote LP printer is no longer needed.
3.6 Limitations of Printer Configurator
• The new LDAP printer schema based on IETF<draft-fleming-ldap-printer-schema-02> is imported
into the LDAP Directory Server to create the printer objects.
• LDAP-UX Client Services only suports the HP-UX LP spooler system, network printers, and
printerservers that support Line Printer Daemon (LPD) protocol. The printer configurator
does not support local printers.
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