Printing to windows printers

[Tom Achtenberg]

Sending an ASCII test page of course had no result.  Doing "tail 
/var/log/messages had nothing related to printig in it, only oprning the 
consol window

On Wednesday 26 December 2001 10:13 pm, you wrote:
> Here is the /tmp/print.diagnostic.txt
>
> foomatic-1.1-0.20011018.7
> Omni-foomatic-0.5.0-4
> # printcap.local
> #
> # This file is included by printconf's generated printcap,
> # and can be used to specify custom printcap entries.
>
> # /etc/printcap
> #
> # DO NOT EDIT! MANUAL CHANGES WILL BE LOST!
> # This file is autogenerated by printconf-backend during lpd init.
> #
> # Hand edited changes can be put in /etc/printcap.local, and will be
> included.
>
> HP5L:\
>
>         :ml=0:\
>         :mx=0:\
>         :sd=/var/spool/lpd/HP5L:\
>         :af=/var/spool/lpd/HP5L/HP5L.acct:\
>         :sh:\
>         :lp=|/usr/share/printconf/util/smbprint:\
>         :lpd_bounce=true:\
>         :if=/usr/share/printconf/util/mf_wrapper:
>
> ###########################################################################
>#### ## Everything below here is included verbatim from /etc/printcap.local
> ##
> ###########################################################################
>#### # printcap.local
> #
> # This file is included by printconf's generated printcap,
> # and can be used to specify custom printcap entries.
>
> lp        1912  0.0  0.8  2828  776 ?        S    Dec25   0:00 lpd Waiting
> root      3016  0.0  0.6  1704  596 pts/1    S    22:10   0:00 grep lpd
>
> On Wednesday 26 December 2001 06:12 pm, you wrote:
> > Tom Achtenberg wrote:
> > > > ----
> > > > 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]$
> >
> > ---
> > OK - was supposed to be vertical bar and not an 'l' between -qa & grep
> >
> > if you are using gui, select the text as I typed it, click on the
> > terminal windows with your 3rd button on your mouse (my scroll wheel is
> > the 3rd button) and it enters the selected text where you click.
> > ---
> >
> > > > 3 - what is output of /etc/printcap?
> > >
> > > [root@pc-00067 tom]# /etc/printcap
> > > bash: /etc/printcap: Permission denied
> > > [root@pc-00067 tom]#
> >
> > ----
> > my fault, I assumed that you understood what I meant...try
> >
> > cat /etc/printconf
> > ----
> >
> > > > 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
> >
> > ---
> > what about /var/log?
> >
> > tail /var/log/messages
> > ---
> >
> > > > 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]#
> >
> > ---
> > OK again, it was supposed to be a vertical bar instead of an 'l' between
> > aux & grep
> >
> > Try this (note the vertical bars are not 'l')
> >
> > rpm -qalgrep foo > /tmp/print.diagnostic.txt
> > cat /etc/printcap.local >> /tmp/print.diagnostic.txt
> > cat /etc/printcap >> /tmp/print.diagnostic.txt
> > ps aux|grep lpd >> /tmp/print.diagnostic.txt
> >
> > then, either...
> > mail craigwhite@azapple.com < /tmp/print.diagnostic.txt
> >
> > or
> > insert /tmp/print.diagnostic.txt into a reply or cat
> > /tmp/print.diagnostic.txt and copy & paste into mail message.
> >
> > AND - though this would probably tell us all we need...
> >
> > If you open printconf-gui and I presume it lists one printer, select
> > that printer, click the edit button and tell us what the queue name is,
> > what the queue type is, and though if we have /etc/printcap as per
> > above, we should know all this...I would love for you to send a print
> > ascii test page to that printer and then 2 minutes later, type,
> > tail /var/log/messages and we will be at the bottom of it.
> >
> > Craig
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