Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 11:48:05 -0400 From: "Kevin Gross" <kc144@sprynet.com> To: "questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Printing from FreeBSD to WinNT Message-ID: <021101bff0cf$90de7da0$0100a8c0@144>
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Hi all,
I'm having a bit of a problem getting my FreeBSD 4-stable (as of 7/17/00)
box to print to my WinNT 4.0sp6a machine. I have a fully functional network
and samba set up correctly (in fact, my bsd box acts as a file server for
the win machine). On my NT machine, I have a HP LaserJet 6L working
correctly. On the BSD box, I installed the most recent apsfilter from the
ports along with ghostscript. Just to test my apsfilter setup, I connected
the laserjet to the FreeBSD box and everything works just fine (provided I
change the apsfilter setup to reflect a lpt0 connection). So I am
basically having a problem printing to NT over the network. When I set up
apsfilter via the /usr/local/apsfilter/SETUP script to print to the NT
printer, I apparently entered all the information correctly. I was able to
print out the apsfilter test page through the laserjet connected to NT. But
now I can't print out regular documents to the printer, i.e.,
$ lp document.txt
$ lpr document.txt
$ lpr -Plp document.txt
and nothing happens. Nothing happens on the NT box, either. Here is my
/etc/printcap (notice I have entries for the remote--lp and raw--and
local--lp2 and raw2--connections):
# @(#)printcap 5.3 (Berkeley) 6/30/90
# $FreeBSD: src/etc/printcap,v 1.10 1999/08/27 23:23:43 peter Exp $
# LABEL apsfilter
# apsfilter setup Tue Jul 18 01:36:35 EDT 2000
#
# DON'T DELETE THIS:
# APS_BASEDIR:/usr/local/apsfilter
#
# APS1_BEGIN:printer1:ljet4:letter:600x600
# - don't delete start label for apsfilter printer1
# - no other printer defines between BEGIN and END LABEL
#
lp|aps1-ljet4-letter-auto-600x600|Printer1 ljet4 letter auto 600x600:\
:lp=/dev/null:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/printer1-ljet4-letter-auto-600x600:\
:lf=/var/spool/lpd/printer1-ljet4-letter-auto-600x600/log:\
:af=/var/spool/lpd/printer1-ljet4-letter-auto-600x600/acct:\
:if=/usr/local/apsfilter/filter/aps1-ljet4-letter-auto-600x600:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:
raw|aps2-ljet4-letter-raw|Printer1 ljet4 letter raw:\
:lp=/dev/null:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/printer1-ljet4-letter-raw:\
:lf=/var/spool/lpd/printer1-ljet4-letter-raw/log:\
:af=/var/spool/lpd/printer1-ljet4-letter-raw/acct:\
:if=/usr/local/apsfilter/filter/aps2-ljet4-letter-raw:\
:mx#0:\
:sf:\
:sh:
# APS1_END - don't delete this END LABEL for printer1
#
# APS2_BEGIN:printer2:ljet4:letter:600x600
# - don't delete start label for apsfilter printer2
# - no other printer defines between BEGIN and END LABEL
#
lp2|aps3-ljet4-letter-auto-600x600|Printer2 ljet4 letter auto 600x600:\
:lp=/dev/lpt0:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/printer2-ljet4-letter-auto-600x600:\
:lf=/var/spool/lpd/printer2-ljet4-letter-auto-600x600/log:\
:af=/var/spool/lpd/printer2-ljet4-letter-auto-600x600/acct:\
:if=/usr/local/apsfilter/filter/aps3-ljet4-letter-auto-600x600:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:
raw2|aps4-ljet4-letter-raw|Printer2 ljet4 letter raw:\
:lp=/dev/lpt0:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/printer2-ljet4-letter-raw:\
:lf=/var/spool/lpd/printer2-ljet4-letter-raw/log:\
:af=/var/spool/lpd/printer2-ljet4-letter-raw/acct:\
:if=/usr/local/apsfilter/filter/aps4-ljet4-letter-raw:\
:mx#0:\
:sf:\
:sh:
# APS2_END - don't delete this END LABEL for printer2
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