Subject: Re: papd problem
From: andrew morgan (morgan@orst.edu)
Date: Sat Oct 28 2000 - 11:06:01 EDT
On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Bill Holyoak wrote:
> An Apple LaserWriter Select 310 which is running on my Linux server. I
> can print to it with my Windows and Linux workstations through Samba so
> I know it's all set up correctly.
>
> I have netatalk installed and it works great for mounting my linux file
> shares via Appletalk. But I can't, for the life of me, get papd working
> correctly. I've gotten it to the point where I can select the printer share with
> LaserWriter 8 in the chooser, but when I send a print job to it it just sits in
> the queue with the message: "Status: print spooler processing job"
This is normal. The status message is hard-coded, so that is all it will
ever report doing.
> Also, when I type:
>
> # papstatus -p printername
>
> it tells me the same thing.
>
> When I configure the papd.conf file with:
>
> lp:\
> :pr=|lpr -Plp:\
> :op=root:\
> :pd=/usr/local/atalk/etc/select310.ppd:
>
> And restart netatalk, I can't even do a papstatus on the printer. It
> tells me: lp:LaserWriter@*: NBP Lookup failed
Have you looked in your log files (/var/log/messages) to see if there are
errors reported?
Papd is very picky about the format of its configuration file, so you
might want to verify that:
1. The printer name starts on the first character of the line. No leading
spaces or tabs.
2. All the other lines must be tabbed in with one tab character. Spaces
won't work.
3. If you use line continuation, make sure you don't have a space after
the \, such as ":\ ". The \ must be the last character on the line.
Otherwise, your papd.conf above looks good.
Andy
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