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List:       netatalk
Subject:    Re: [netatalk-admins] Printing Config Problem
From:       Peter Gutowski <peterg () lx0 ! powervue ! com>
Date:       1998-02-24 11:44:16
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Doug,

Having recently worked a number of bugs with a similar setup (RH
5.0/Pentium/Laserwriter via Ethernet & HPDeskJet 870 attached to lp1)
Here's my voodoo:

On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Doug Littlefield wrote:

> Trying to print to appletalk LaserWriter on ethernet via Linux box. Read
> All the docs, how tos I can
> find. Lurked on this for months, searched the archives.
> Printing goes to the spool directly just fine.
> Can't get any thing out of the printer.
> lpc, status says it's printing.
> 
> ===========================================
> 
> .paprc
> 
> #PRINTTOOL3## REMOTE POSTSCRIPT 600x600 letter {} PostScript Default {}
> lp0|LaserWriter Pro 630|LaserWriter:\
>         :pr=lp0:\
> 

observation: my .paprc file only has the appletalk name of the printer in
its spool folder (this for my Laserwriter, of course the DeskJet doesn't
have a paprc file 'cause it prints via parallel port)

> ==============================================
> 
> 
> # /etc/printcap
> 
> (The first printer, lp, the laserjet works fine)
> 
> ##PRINTTOOL3## LOCAL laserjet 300x300 letter {} LaserJet Default 1
> lp:\
>         :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
>         :mx#0:\
>         :sh:\
>         :pl:\
>         :60:\
>         :sf:\
>         :ff=:\
>         :lp=/dev/lp1:\
>         :if=/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter:
> 
> 
> ##PRINTTOOL3## REMOTE POSTSCRIPT 600x600 letter {} PostScript Default {}
> 
> lp0|"LaserWriter Pro 630"|LaserWriter:\
>         :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp0:\
>         :lp0=/var/spool/lpd/lp0/dev/null:\
>         :pl#63:\
>         :pw#85:\
>         :mx#0:\
>         :sh:\
>         :sf:\
>         :lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:\
>         :if=/usr/local/atalk/etc/filters/ifpap:\
>         :of=/usr/local/atalk/etc/filters/ofpap:
> 
> =====================================
> papd.conf
> 
> (I tried this with just first 2 lines, but papd didn't see it )
> 
> ##PRINTTOOL3## REMOTE POSTSCRIPT 600x600 letter {} PostScript Default {}
> 
> lp0|"LaserWriter Pro 630"|LaserWriter:\
>         :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp0:\
>         :lp0=/var/spool/lpd/lp0/dev/null:\
>         :pl#63:\
>         :pw#85:\
>         :mx#0:\
>         :sh:\
>         :sf:\
>         :lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:\
>         :if=/usr/local/atalk/etc/filters/ifpap:\
>         :of=/usr/local/atalk/etc/filters/ofpap:
> 
> 

The man page for papd says that the contents of a papd.conf file should 
ONLY contain 3 entires: "pr", "op" and "pd". Yeah, it says it's
"formatted" like a printcap file, but that's where it ends. Here's a
portion of my papd.conf:

DeskJet 870 Faster Text:\
        :pr=lp:op=daemon:\
        :pd=/usr/local/lib/ppd/cdj850.ppd:



> ======================================
> 
> /var/log/lpd-errs
> 
> 
> lp0:LaserWriter@*: NBP Lookup failed
> lp0:LaserWriter@*: NBP Lookup failed
> lp0:LaserWriter@*: NBP Lookup failed
> 
> 
This is probably coming from your erroneous .paprc file: it's looking
for a Laserwriter called lp0!

> =========================================
> 
> Got this automatic email
> 
> Subject: printer job
>    Date:  Mon, 23 Feb 1998 15:18:08 -0800
>   From:  bin <bin@cgprint.com>
>     To:     operator@server1.cgprint.com
> 
> 
> Your printer job (Mac Job)
> was not unlinked: permission denied
> 
> ==============================
> 
> Thanks for the help.
> 
> Doug Littlefield
> 

Also, when logged in as a "normal" user (not root) I had trouble printing
when I said "cat <file> | lpr", until I change perms of lpr as follows:

-r-sr-sr-x   1 root     lp          15244 Oct 30 10:39 /usr/bin/lpr

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