Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 19:06:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Mailing List), david@dhw.vip.best.com Subject: Re: remote printing to an HP DeskJet500 Message-ID: <199805210206.TAA01405@tao.thought.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980520160412.29176A-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> from Doug White at "May 20, 98 04:06:37 pm"
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The past 48 hours have been a learning experience in
trying to get my DeskJet to print networked. Over my
ethernet cable from ``sage'' my 6x86 box to ``tao'' my
old P90 that has the DJ500 hanging off /dev/lpt0.
In case anyone else had similar problems, this brief
write up may hopefully help.
Given a similar network, if you have any trouble with `lpr'
on your remote system, and having dropped into /etc/printcap
something similar to this:
remote|sample remote printer:\
:rm=lphost:sd=/var/spool/output/lphost:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:
or
lp|remote:\
:rp=hp500:rm=tao.thought.org:sd=/var/spool/output/tao:\
:lp=:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:
the _first_ thing to check is your network configuration
in /etc/rc.conf. Being able to ping your local//private
sites is not enough. You should be able to ping anywhere
from any of your machines. If you cannot, you probably
won't be able to remote lpr.
This is what had me stalled for 30-40 hours. I had my
routing done correctly typed in by hand on my 6x86; the
system was up for around two weeks and when I finally
rebooted, my network config wasn't set up correctly in
/etc/rc.conf. It wasn't until I tried lynx to fetch
a port from sage that I realized something was hosed.
After 45 minutes of trying different configurations I
could finally ping an outside site. And shortly after
that my printer came to life, and dumped the queued pages.
Other problems that may not be evident are missing
directories in /var/spool; permissions, ownerships;
missing daemons (lpd, in this case).
Thanks gratefully noted to David Wolfskill and Doug White!
gary
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