Printing Problem

Hello ! We have SCO-Open 5.0.5 installed on HP Server. We are facing printing problem.Printer is connected to Server previously it was working fine but suddenly its giving problem.After printing 1 or 2 pages it stops the printing and when we run lpstat -t command it gives following error

"Can not change print directory to Spool directory " 
 

For this we have reconfigured Parallel port as well as printer but same problem is coming.

kindly give us the solution .

Dhananjay

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Mon May 9 12:18:40 2005: Subject:   TonyLawrence


Obviously you have permissions issues or completely missing directories. Go read part 7 of the FAQ here.





Tue May 10 13:27:34 2005: Subject: Printing Issue   anonymous


when we connect Dot Matrix Printer to the server it works fine but when we connect Line printer it prints 2/3 pages and gives following error.
lpstat : Could not stat spool directory for /dev/pr0
lpstat : /dev/pr0 : can not chdir to spooling directory.

when we connect this line printer to windows machine line printer works fine .

so can you pls help me out where exactly the problem is ?

Regds




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