Subject: Re: papd problem
From: TimY (timy@darkhorse.com)
Date: Mon Oct 30 2000 - 12:08:43 EST
Here is a link to the best site I can find for pap answers. Follow
the instructions and you will have a working printer. Everything
worked for me very well and easy. Good luck
http://www.giub.unibe.ch/~eugster/appleprint.html
>I have come up empty when searching for info on my problem, so if this is
>a repeated question on the list, I'm sorry. I found some questions that
>were the same one I'm about to ask, but no answers. Somebody PLEASE
>HELP ME!!!
>
>Here is my configuration.
>
>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"
>
>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
>
>I think I'm close. I think it's probably just a small configuration
>issue, but
>it's really REALLY frusterating me. It hasn't been the easiest thing to find
>help on this matter.
>
>Can ANYONE help me that's had this problem before or who might have
>an inkling? I would sincerely appreciate it!
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