Update - problem partially solved.
I believe that a typo in smb.conf caused the grief, HOWEVER the
formatting of text files from lp kind of sucks. Printing is hard
against the Left Hand Side of page and loses about 2 characters.
I looked and did not seem to have a2ps installed therefore installed and
rebooted. Print is still the same - bad
ALSO - I have been periodically getting kernel IRQ 7 error
messages...!!! This does not sound like a good thing.
Suggestions? Should I perhaps de-install CUPS and do again?
Note this was originally set up as a simple web server, but I thought
since it is running 24/7 and has Samba installed to access files from my
WinBox I might as well tie the printer to it so as to enable printing of
config files etc .... (yes I can open Samba wider to access those files
from Windows but I do not like the security implications!)
Some ideas from a good CUPser might really help.
Thanks, Graham/
Graham North wrote:
I just set up my FreeBSD box to act as a printserver. I used CUPs
and Samba following great directions found here:
http://www.ajl-tech.com/index2.php?option=content&do_pdf=1&id=16
The printserver works very nicely printing jobs from my WinXP client
to an hp4l printer attached to Freebsd, however it will not print
files from itself using lpr.
A bit of hunting found some "gotchas" at:
http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/cups.html ... and so I tried
adding symbolic links for the lp and lpr commands as per the author's
recommendations - see bottom of email.
The problem still exists however, now instead of getting error
messages, if I issue a "lpr filename" command, my printer gives a
quick blink, no errror messages are generated, but neither is printer
output - nada!
Repeat - Samba and Cups work together fine on this elderly hp4l -
print all sorts from Windows. Just cannot access from the server itself.
I am sure that this is a simple configuration issue somewhere -
my printcap definition, ie: hp4l|lp|hp4l:rm=192.168.0.102:rp=hp4l:
ps. This was auto-generated from CUPs and oirignally was
"hp4l|hp4l:rm=192.168.0.102:rp=hp4l:"
(I later inserted the lp myself as CUPS does not, either way it
doesn't work.)
Can anyone please point me straight on this?
Thanks, Graham/
>From "gotchas"
************
"With FreeBSD, cups will place its configuration files in
/usr/local/etc rather than /etc. The lp or lpr command that you will
use is also going to be in /usr/local/bin rather than /usr/bin. As
/usr/bin is listed first in the path for both root and normal user, if
one tries to print using the command lp filename you'll get an error
message.
There are various workarounds--one can edit the $PATH variable, type
the entire path, eg /usr/local/bin/lp or do it the lazy man's way,
which, as those who know me would expect, is what I did. I backed up
the /usr/bin lp and lpr and then sym linked /usr/local/bin's commands
to them.
mv /usr/bin/lp /usr/bin/lp.bak
mv /usr/bin/lpr /usr/bin/lpr.bak
ln -s /usr/local/bin/lp /usr/bin/lp
ln -s /usr/local/bin/lpr /usr/bin/lpr"
**************
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Kindness can be infectious - try it.
Graham North
Vancouver, BC
www.soleado.ca
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Vancouver, BC
www.soleado.ca
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