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The Question is: We are running a couple of vaxs in a cluster running 5.5-2 vms and an alpha running 7.1 vms( alpha not in the cluster). The problem I am seeing is I have set up the printer queues as specified in the system managers manual section 13.2.2.4 Using lat printers. see figure 13-6 of that manual. Basically I want to share the printer from several nodes. I have set up the term server port as queueing enabled (had it disabled as well) The problem I am seeing is which ever que has had the device last is not releasing it (lat$link stays in a connected state)thus all other nodes attempting to print to the same term server port go into a stalled state until the que on the offending node is stopped. I have had this running for years or so I thought. I have run out of ideas on this trouble shooting problem. The Answer is : This "connection-retaining" behaviour on LAT print queues generally points to the use of the standard print symbiont PRTSMB.EXE, rather than the recommended LATSYM.EXE print symbiont. See the INITIALIZE/QUEUE/DEVICE/PROCESSOR command. With OpenVMS V6.1 and later, this is no longer a factor as PRTSMB is now capable of all operations of LATSYM, including now permitting the ability to modify PRTSMB operations (via PSM) for traditional print queues and for LAT queues.
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