From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 29 14:12:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [171.66.112.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D9F137B400 for ; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 14:12:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g2TMAnd17451; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 14:10:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu) Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 14:10:49 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson To: Glenn Johnson Cc: FreeBSD questions list Subject: Re: apsfilter printing through samba In-Reply-To: <1017437510.46170.20.camel@node1> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 29 Mar 2002, Glenn Johnson wrote: > I am trying to get printing going on a FreeBSD -stable box to a Windows > XP box. I set up apsfilter and the test page prints fine but when I > print through lpr nothing actually prints. The job shows up in the lpd > print queue and then disappears as the job is supposedly finished, but > nothing comes out of the printer. > > I have apsfilter 7.2.2 and FreeBSD -stable as of March 28, 2002. Samba > is working fine otherwise and printing to a locally attached printer > worked fine. It is just printing through samba. Strange that the test > page worked though. > > Thanks in advance. > > -- > Glenn Johnson > glennpj@charter.net > Look at the error messages in the file for the printer definition set up by apsfilter to handle this printer. Also look at the smb.conf file in the /etc/apsfilter file hierarchy-- one should have been created; it needs to be world readable. You do have samba installed? Annelise -- Annelise Anderson Author of: FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your PC Available from: BSDmall.com and amazon.com Book Website: http://www.bittreepress.com/FreeBSD/introbook/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message