Subject: Need some help with printing on a LaserWriter IIg
From: Morgan Reed (morganr@home.com)
Date: Tue May 30 2000 - 01:04:47 EDT
Werner,
First, let me say thank you for your excellent and very clear HowTo; Even
though my box is a Debian install with some differences in the netatalk
files placement, your guide was excellent in telling me WHY a certain file
was a certain place, something rare in many HowTos.
I am attempting to set up a laptop as a small print server for my home
network. It is a 486 with Debian 2.1 installed. Minimal services, but all
the important ones are working. I am able to ping out, ping in, find my
laserWriter (though not a zone; as a note, if you edit your HowTo again, I
would suggest putting a note in there telling people that if their
laserWriter is not part of an established Appletalk network, then the
command getzones will be useless. Instead, they will be able to correctly
identify their LaserWriter when they run nbplku. At least it worked for me
an one other person on the netatalk mailing list)
My problem is as follows:
I am able to send a print job to my laserwriter with pap (pap -p "MMLab IIg"
test.ps), however, if I try and use lpr, I get one of the following errors:
job 'cfA679LinuxBox2.thereedfamily.org' transfer to lp@localhost failed
or
job 'cfA680LinuxBox2.thereedfamily.org' tcp spooler is being used by(.....
I have not be able to re-duplicate this error, the first one appears
consistantly).
I did edit the services file to include the numbers and ports you specified
(even though I did not build it myself, and instead used the binary that is
downloaded with dselect in Debeian) and I edited my printcap with the
following:
lp|MMLab IIg:LaserWriter:\
:lp=/dev/null:\
:sd=var/spool/lpd/LaserWriterIIg:\
:pl#63:pw#85:\
# :mx#0:\
:shsf:\
:of=/usr/lib/atalk/filters/ofpap:
I have set up a directory in the lpd folder called LaserWriterIIg and the
filters are in the directory /usr/lib/atalk/filters/ and the ethernet name
of the printer is MMLab IIg.
What have I done wrong?
Another aside note, My IIg printer won't rename from the ethertalk port.
If I hook it up to my mac via 8pin din, I can rename and the name will
stick, but when I put the ethertalk on, then rename, the printer software
"loses" the printer when I try to rename and then update. No biggie. I
have the printer select switch set to 4, should it be something else?
I am going to cc this messgae to the netatlk mailing list on the jhope that
this will either a) be solved quickly by someone on the list, or b) if you
are able to solve it, I can post the results there.
Thank you,
Morgan Reed
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