Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 00:18:24 -0400 (EDT) From: ADRIAN Filipi-Martin <adrian@ubergeeks.com> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: remote printing and SCO OpenServer Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980611001707.9568D-100000@lorax.ubergeeks.com> In-Reply-To: <19980610220541.A24047@emsphone.com>
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On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Dan Nelson wrote:
> 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.
Well, that's what I got. Here's the printcap from the SCO box:
test:\
:lp=:rm=toilette:rp=test:sd=/usr/spool/lpd/test:
Any other ideas on what to check?
Adrian
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