Printing to windows printers

[Tom Achtenberg]

On Wednesday 26 December 2001 07:12 am, you wrote:
> Tom Achtenberg wrote:
> > The print config on the Linux box includes the IP of the NT server, the
> > admin user ID and PW and the workgroup.  On the NT box "Everyone" has
> > prnt privledges.
>
> ----
> 1 - what is your output of 'rpm -qa|grep foo'  ?
>
>   - does it look like:
>     Omni-foomatic-0.5.0-4
>     foomatic-1.1-0.20011018.7
>

[tom@pc-00067 tom]$ rpm -qalgrep foo
rpmq: one type of query/verify may be performed at a time
[tom@pc-00067 tom]$

> 2 - when we last tried this, you were dealing with two separate
> printers. Let's take one at a time, probably the laser printer since it
> is much easier...
>
>  - what kind of printer is it?  Which printer are you picking from
> printconf-gui?
>

I am only trying the laser at this time.  It is a HP5L  I have tried all 3 
choices in the pick list for it.


> 3 - what is output of /etc/printcap?
>

[root@pc-00067 tom]# /etc/printcap
bash: /etc/printcap: Permission denied
[root@pc-00067 tom]#

> 4 - can you print a test page from printconf-gui?
>

NO

> 5 - can you let us know any output from /var/log/messages & WindowsNT
> Event Viewer that suggests that the print job was queued, denied,
> abandoned?
>

It does not appear to ever hit the NT queue

> 6 - is lpd running?  what is output of 'ps aux|grep lpd'  ?
>

[root@pc-00067 tom]# ps auxlgrep lpd
ps: error: Process ID list syntax error.
usage: ps -[Unix98 options]
       ps [BSD-style options]
       ps --[GNU-style long options]
       ps --help for a command summary
[root@pc-00067 tom]#