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Date:      Fri, 29 Mar 2002 21:22:52 -0800
From:      Chip Wiegand <chip@wiegand.org>
To:        Glenn Johnson <glennpj@charter.net>
Cc:        David Banning <david@skytrackercanada.com>, FreeBSD questions list <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: apsfilter printing through samba
Message-ID:  <200203292125654.SM00968@there>
In-Reply-To: <20020330045107.GA98731@gforce.johnson.home>
References:  <1017437510.46170.20.camel@node1> <200203292031354.SM00968@there> <20020330045107.GA98731@gforce.johnson.home>

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On Friday 29 March 2002 20:51, Glenn Johnson wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 08:29:05PM -0800, Chip Wiegand wrote:
> > On Friday 29 March 2002 20:14, Glenn Johnson wrote:
> > > My feeling is there is something wrong in the apsfilter script that
> > > is causing this as it tries to determine the print method. I say
> > > this because the test job prints fine.
> > >
> > > Thank you.
> >
> > A problem I've seen happen is the print command is not being formed
> > correctly. For example, is apsfilter the name of the printer is given
> > as hp1 (or whatever). When sending a print job the command would be
> > lpr -Php1.  What I've seen is people just use lpr and nothing else, or
> > they use the wrong printer name. You have varified that the name you
> > are calling is the same as what was set up in apsfilter? You can find
> > out the name by looking at /etc/printcap.
>
> In this case I want to make the printer the default printer so the name
> 'lp' is assigned to it in the printcap file. That should be what is
> called if I just use 'lpr'. But I wonder if the name of the printer
> share is somehow getting intermingled.

Run apsfilter again and when you are given the option of assigning a name, 
just give it lp, which is the default anyway. With multiple printers you'd 
have to use other names of course. In my case, I just always give the 
complete command - lpr -Php or lpr -Pepson, and so on, you get the pic. You 
should be okay rerunning apsfilter and nameing the printer lp.

--
Chip W
www.wiegand.org
chip@wiegand.org

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