OK, I hate to bring up this old chestnut again, but somehow I thought I
had this working, but now it doesn't seem to.
If I have something like:
xenadirect:lp=xena.engin.umich.edu%9100:direct
I get an error like:
Status Information:
sending job 'jklaas@taloned+852' to xenadirect@localhost
connecting to 'localhost', attempt 1
cannot open connection to localhost - Connection refused
Make sure LPD server is running on the server
However, doing:
lpr -P xena%9100 -Y /etc/motd
works great. Any other ideas?
James Klaas (734)615-0364
CAEN Systems Group
IST 5113
On Mon, 8 Oct 2001, Patrick Powell wrote:
> > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Oct 2 08:26:59 2001
> > To: James Thomas Klaas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: LPRng: problems printing to HPJetDirect
> > Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 09:15:47 -0500
> > From: John Perkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > > Unfortunately, the printer is an old laserjet 4 and only takes socket
> > > reqests on port 9100. Isn't there any way for me to specify a port to
> > > send to using the rm/rp format?
> >
> > If your printer doesn't speak LPD, you can't use rm/rp to talk to it directly.
> >
> > You'll need something like this on at least one machine:
> >
> > xena:lp=xenaprint.engin.umich.edu%9100:sd=<spool_dir>
> >
> > (You will need to run an lpd process on that server host, too). Now, you can
> > use rm/rp on all your other client machines to point at it:
>
>
> Well... ummm... uhh... there is a nasty way to avoid doing this.
>
> In your ${HOME}/.printcap file:
>
> lp:lp=host%9100:direct
>
> Ummm... this will force LPR to make a direct connection to
> port 9100 on the host and fling the job at it. Note that there
> is no 'system' printcap entry.
>
> You could also do:
>
> lpr -Phost%9100 -Y
>
> (-Y as in 'Yes, I know what I am doing')
>
> Amazing what is buried in this code, right?
>
> >
> > xena:force_localhost@:rm=print_server.engin.umich.edu:rp=xena
> >
> > --
> > ============================================================================
> > John Perkins | University of Wisconsin-Madison
> > Associate Researcher | Department of Computer Science
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 1210 W. Dayton St.
> > 608-262-0438/608-262-9997 FAX | Madison, WI 53706-1685
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