apfilter, ghostscript, and printer! yikes!

[rustyc]

Help!  I've fallen and I cannot get up!

Oh, wait, wrong story.

I've finally decided to get my Canon BJC6000 printer
working - somehow.  (DON'T BUY CANON PRINTERS!)

So, first attempt was to run vmware and print using
the windows printer driver under windows, exported
via samba to linux.  (VMware allows the windows client
OS to have access to devices you specify, and I tried
to let it have the parallel port).

This attempt failed miserably - when I try to have VMWare
take the printer port it says

"Unsupported parallel port hardware /dev/parport0
(no ECR register).
Failed to connect device parallel0
	[OK]"

(I tried with lp0, and it complained about not having
readback (basically)).

Ok, I thought, so the kludge won't work, how about doing
it 'right' - I'll get ghostscript working.

Installed gs 6.01
Installed lprng (removing lpr)
Installed apsfilter

Everything looked good.  Tried to print.  Nothing.

syslog says:

Sep 15 18:27:18 base-station-alpha kernel: ppuser00: registered pardevice
Sep 15 18:27:18 base-station-alpha kernel: ppuser00: claim the port first
Sep 15 18:27:18 base-station-alpha kernel: ppuser00: released pardevice because user-space forgot
Sep 15 18:27:18 base-station-alpha kernel: ppuser00: unregistered pardevice

the lp2.0 log says:

 Status: subserver pid 18644 starting at 18:30:41.487
 Status: accounting at start at 18:30:41.514
 Status: waiting for subserver to exit at 18:30:41.484
 Status: opening device '/dev/parport0' at 18:30:41.559
 Status: printing job 'root@base-station-alpha+640' at 18:30:41.560
 Status: processing 'dfA640base-station-alpha.descomp.com', size 226361, format 'f', IF filter 'aps1-bjc610a0.upp-letter-auto-default' at 18:30:41.560
 Status: IF filter 'aps1-bjc610a0.upp-letter-auto-default' filter msg - 'Make_passthrough: pid 18645, execve '/root/apsfilter/filter/aps1-bjc610a0.upp-letter-auto-default' failed - 'Permission denied'' at 18:30:41.564
 Status: IF filter 'aps1-bjc610a0.upp-letter-auto-default' filter exit status 'JABORT' at 18:30:41.564
 Status: printing finished at 18:30:41.564
 Status: accounting at end at 18:30:41.565
 Status: finished 'root@base-station-alpha+640', status 'JABORT' at 18:30:41.565
 Status: subserver pid 18644 exit status 'JABORT' at 18:30:41.566
 Status: job 'root@base-station-alpha+640' error 'aborting operations' at 18:30:41.566
 Status: removing job 'root@base-station-alpha+640' - ABORT at 18:30:41.568
 Filter_status: lp2 is ready and printing 


Ok, so the obvious thing is that my execve target is bad.  Here's a look at it:

 
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           16 Sep 14 18:52 aps1-bjc610a0.upp-letter-auto-default -> ../bin/apsfilter*
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           16 Sep 14 18:52 aps2-bjc610a0.upp-letter-raw -> ../bin/apsfilter*


And here's what it points at:

-r-xr-xr-x    1 bin      wheel       55807 Sep 14 19:13 ../bin/apsfilter*

THAT all looks good to me.

So, ANYBODY, HELP!  What have I fat-fingered?

Oh, just in case it helps, here is my /etc/printcap:

# LABEL apsfilter
# apsfilter setup Thu Sep 14 18:51:53 MST 2000
#
# DON'T DELETE THIS:
# APS_BASEDIR:/root/apsfilter
#
# APS1_BEGIN:printer1:bjc610a0.upp:letter:default
# - don't delete start label for apsfilter printer1
# - no other printer defines between BEGIN and END LABEL
#
lp2|aps1-bjc6000a1.upp-letter-auto-default|Printer1 bjc6000a1.upp letter auto default:\
    :lp=/dev/lp0:\
    :sd=/var/spool/lpd/printer1-bjc6000a1.upp-letter-auto-default:\
    :lf=/var/spool/lpd/printer1-bjc6000a1.upp-letter-auto-default/log:\
    :af=/var/spool/lpd/printer1-bjc6000a1.upp-letter-auto-default/acct:\
    :if=/root/apsfilter/filter/aps1-bjc610a0.upp-letter-auto-default:\
    :mx#0:\
    :sh:
# APS1_END - don't delete this END LABEL for printer1 


Ok, I lied, I deleted all but lp2.

anybody have a clue?  I'm totally baffled...

rusty