Chris,

Good thought, but these problems are occurring on intranet, inside the
firewalls......

thanks,
jp
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bartram, Chris (Contractor)" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "'John Pitman'" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2003 2:52 AM
Subject: RE: [HP3000-L] STRANGE NPCONFIG BEHAVIOUR


> John Pitman <mailto:[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > wE HAVE HAD THE FOLLOWING SET UP RUNNING FOR SOME TIME NOW:-
> >
> > both mpe 7.01 and 7.5
> > ldev x configured in sysgen as a networked printer
> > npconfig contains an entry for it with a non existent ip address
> > device is spooled, suspended.
> > Users send printout to this device, we have a program that finds the
> > spoolfiles, ftps them to a pc directory based on user .account,
> > removes from out.hpspool .
> > Users have an ftp browser that locates the files, they download, put
> > them in XL etc.
> > Suddenly today, after 6 months of happy operation, get console
> > messages saying spooler stopped on device because it has an error
> > from it. When we try to startspool and suspendspool it, the system is
> > too quick and we dont get time to suspend it before it gets errors
> > and stops it again. Can fix it by providing an ip address that
> > exists, but why did it suddenly change behaviour today. Happening on
> > 2 928lx systems, which dont have any DTCs.
> >
> > ??
> >
> > John Pitman
> >
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> A sudden new firewall rule would certainly cause that... Especially one
that
> stopped the SNMP (UDP) messages that the spooler requires to talk with a
> networked printer.
>
>  -Chris Bartram

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