Subject: [netatalk-admins] Lost spooled print files.
From: Andrew Croke (apcr@ecr.mu.oz.au)
Date: Tue Aug 05 1997 - 06:02:40 EDT
Good morning,
I wondered whether somebody might be able to steer me in the right
direction to get my laser printer working from my Mac via my Linux (2.0.0)
machine? Apologies if this is a common question.
I have exported the printer via papd.conf with something like:
HP LaserJet:\
:pr=lp:\
:op=apcr:
I can see the printer from chooser OK but when I print to it I get a 0
byte single entry in my spool directory and nothing prints. The Mac
eventually tells me that there is a problem.
I have also tried telling it the correct spool directory to dump the file
into to no avail. Could it be something like number of bits coming from
the Mac to the Linux OS?
The printers I have tried are a HP LJ6MP on /dev/lp1 and a Laserwriter
IINT on /dev/cua1 and they appear to have done the same thing.
I have "a2ps" in between doing ascii to postscript filtering and either
dumping a file by "cat file_name >> /dev/lp1" or doing a straight lpr
<file> from the Linux box works OK.
Is there something I should also do to set up the printer?
I hope this makes sense to you and that you have an idea of where I have
messed up.
Cheers,
Andrew Croke
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Andrew Croke P.O. Box 451
University of Melbourne Nth Melbourne 3051
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