Solaris 5.9 - HP Laserjet 9050dn

UNIX Solaris
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Hi there,

I hope someone could shed a light on my problem. OS is running in local zone (global zone - 5.10). We use many printers from Ricoh etc. Most of them are running fine if configured as below (for Ricoh printers I use their installer):

lpadmin -p _printer_ -v /dev/null -A write -i /usr/lib/lp/model/standard -I simple -u allow:all

Now I am trying set up HP Laserjet 9050dn, it's really annoying. I am AIX/Linux sysadmin so maybe I miss something obvious?

I did:

  1. updated /etc/hosts
  2. created DNS record
  3. updated /etc/resolv.conf file, as printer is in different domain.
  4. installed driver (/usr/lib/lp/model/hpnpl/net_lj9050 dedicated for this printer)
  5. I tried with:
lpadmin -p _printer_ -v /dev/null -A write -i /usr/lib/lp/model/hpnpl/net_lj9050 -o dest=x.x.x.x -I simple -u allow:all

lpadmin -p _printer_ -v /dev/null -A write -i /usr/lib/lp/model/hpnpl/net_lj9050 -I simple -u allow:all

lpadmin -p _printer_ -v /dev/null -A write -i /usr/lib/lp/model/standard -I simple -u allow:all

etc

Unfortunately the hp installer does not work.

# /opt/hpnpl/hppi 

         ****************************************************************
         *****]         ****      
         **** ]          ****     JetDirect Printer Installer for UNIX
         **** ]]]]] ]]]]] ****    Version E.10.34
         **** ]   ] ]   ] ****
         **** ]   ] ]]]]] ****    M A I N     M E N U
         *****      ]     ****
         ******     ]    ****     User: (root)    OS: (SunOS 5.9)
              I N V E N T
         ****************************************************************

         1) Spooler Administration (super-user only)


         2) JetDirect Configuration (super-user only)
            - TCP/IP configurable parameters

         3) Diagnostics:
            - diagnose printing problems


                   ?) Help         q) Quit

Installer complains about:

mknod: Not owner
chmod: WARNING: can't access /dev/_printer_


Addprinter error: can't find /etc/lp/interfaces/_printer_

Port 9100 is open, I can telnet. You can even do a test print from above GUI...

I tried to debug hppi however other files are binaries and even with

truss -f -t stat,open

I can't see how the request is completed.
I added /dev/_printer_ in global zone, however I can't export it till local zone reboot.

Forgot to add that on terminal I can see that each request is finished without errors, the same is in requests log. But when I sniff packets, I can see no traffic between OS and printer. I listen properly as can see packets during telnet or during test printing from hp installer.

Need thoughts thoughts thoughts... Cheers