Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 15:58:11 +0800 From: "Daniel Marsh" <daniel@stiw.org> To: "Graham North" <northg@shaw.ca>, "questions freebsd" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: printing problems with CUPS on localhost server Message-ID: <op.suyl9db0jjurwa@spock.enterprise.prvt> In-Reply-To: <42F16BAE.7040600@shaw.ca> References: <42F16BAE.7040600@shaw.ca>
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On Thu, 04 Aug 2005 09:13:18 +0800, Graham North <northg@shaw.ca> wrote: > I just set up my FreeBSD box to act as a printserver. I used CUPs and > Samba following great directions found here: > http://www.ajl-tech.com/index2.php?option=content&do_pdf=1&id=16 > > The printserver works very nicely printing jobs from my WinXP client to > an hp4l printer attached to Freebsd, however it will not print files > from itself using lpr. > > A bit of hunting found some "gotchas" at: > http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/cups.html ... and so I tried > adding symbolic links for the lp and lpr commands as per the author's > recommendations - see bottom of email. > > The problem still exists however, now instead of getting error messages, > if I issue a "lpr filename" command, my printer gives a quick blink, no > errror messages are generated, but neither is printer output - nada! > > Repeat - Samba and Cups work together fine on this elderly hp4l - print > all sorts from Windows. Just cannot access from the server itself. > I am sure that this is a simple configuration issue somewhere - > > my printcap definition, ie: hp4l|lp|hp4l:rm=192.168.0.102:rp=hp4l: > ps. This was auto-generated from CUPs and oirignally was > "hp4l|hp4l:rm=192.168.0.102:rp=hp4l:" > (I later inserted the lp myself as CUPS does not, either way it doesn't > work.) > > Can anyone please point me straight on this? > Thanks, Graham/ Are you using the lpr that was installed with FreeBSD as part of the base or the lpr supplier by the cups-lpr package? FreeBSD base lpr is in /usr/bin|/usr/sbin and the cups-lpr is in /usr/local/bin|/usr/local/sbin...
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