Re: [TCLUG:14821] lpr -> LPRng

[John Hawley <jhawley@bgea.org>]

Thanks for the tip.  Actually the stair-step problem went away after some more
fiddling.  I sort of started over, puting the printcap back to the way it was
from the redhat printtool settings, and restarted lpd.  I'm confused.  All the
mucking about with the printcap before didn't seem to do anything.  Sounds
inconvient to me to have to restart lpd after any printcap changes, but from
using checkpc, it looked like changes weren't acted on till I did the
restart.  I'm pretty sure the stock lpr didn't need restarts.

Haven't got back to the main problem of Samba clients not printing to the
deskjets.  Did just notice on the HP site, that they do seem to be providing
different drivers for color inkjets that are "networked" .. maybe its just a
easy matter of updating W95 drivers.

-jh

Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:

> >print fine through Samba, however I can get nothing to print to the
> >Deskjets now  - the jobs just sit in the Samba spool directory.
>
> >stair step text, and I have to hit the FF button to get a Deskjet job to
> >kick out, so I know there is a filter issue here.
>
> try replacing your printfilter with this:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> awk '{print $0"\r"}'
> exit 0
>
> all this does is CR->CR/LF conversion.
> there's a line of sed code in the RH printfilters that does the same thing;
> however, if there isn't a form feed at the end of the page (like a lot of
> sloppy programs don't put), the filter will hang on that for some reason.
>
> change it to the above line of awk; and see if that makes a difference.
> worked for me, under RH 5.1/samba 1.9.18
>
> thanks once more to Carl Patten and a few others I don't remember, who
> helped me through it then! :)
>
> Carl Soderstrom
> System Administrator    307 Brighton Ave.
> Minnesota DHIA          Buffalo, MN
> carls@agritech.com      (612) 682-1091
>
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