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From: "Daniel Marsh" <daniel@stiw.org>
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Subject: Re: printing problems with CUPS on localhost server
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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...