LPRng goofiness

[Timothy Wilson <wilson@visi.com>]

Hey everyone,

It's been said network printing the bane of the admin's existence. I must
say that I whole-heartedly agree. My stupid printer gives me more grief than
everything else combined.

I'm using LPRng on my print server, printing to an HP4000 PS printer with a
JetDirect card. This was working a few days ago, but now seems hosed. When I
try to print something from the commandline on the server, I get:

[wilsont@thales wilsont]$ lpr .bashrc
Status Information:
 sending job 'wilsont@thales+676' to missingprinter@localhost 
 connecting to 'localhost', attempt 1 
 connected to 'localhost' 
 requesting printer missingprinter@localhost 
 error 'LINK_TRANSFER_FAIL' sending str '^Bmissingprinter' to 
missingprinter@localhost 
 job 'wilsont@thales+676' transfer to missingprinter@localhost failed           

I went and looked. The printer is most certainly not missing. It's right
where I left it. :-)

Anybody got a heads-up on this for me? BTW, here's my printcap:

[wilsont@thales wilsont]$ cat /etc/printcap 
# This is the printcap entry for thales to print on the HP4000. 
# Spooling software is LPRng in /usr/local/src
 
lp|hp4000
  :server
  :lp=10.22.100.76%9100
  :sd=/var/spool/lpd/hp4000
  :if=/usr/libexec/filters/ifhp
  :of=/usr/libexec/filters/ifhp
  :mv=0:sh:sf                                                                   

Later,
Tim

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