Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 22:05:41 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Adrian Filipi-Martin <adrian@ubergeeks.com>, FreeBSD Questions List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: remote printing and SCO OpenServer Message-ID: <19980610220541.A24047@emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980610160712.9568A-100000@lorax.ubergeeks.com>; from "ADRIAN Filipi-Martin" on Wed Jun 10 16:25:45 GMT 1998 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980610160712.9568A-100000@lorax.ubergeeks.com>
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In the last episode (Jun 10), ADRIAN Filipi-Martin said:
> Hi folks,
>
> Has anyone set up remote printing from a SCO box to a FreeBSD
> one? I have all of what I believe I shoud have enabled, yet nothing
> makes it accross wire. The files queue up on the SCO side and the
> FreeBSD side logs a bade request as follows:
>
> Jun 9 15:57:17 ${FreeBSD_box} lpd[2113]: bad request (57) from ${SCO_box}
>
> Anyone got some ideas on what I should check into?
For some unknown reason, SCO's print queues default to using "extended
RLP" mode, which is (surprise) only supported on SCO Openserver 5
systems. Edit your /etc/printcap file on the SCO machine and remove
the :ex: capability from your print queue. That should unclog your
queue.
-Dan Nelson
dnelson@emsphone.com
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