I am unable to get the printer to show up in the MacOS chooser. I am
having many problems in general with setting up printing.
My OS is FreeBSD3.4-STABLE and print is an HP LaserJet 5Si. I have
netatalk-1.4b2+asun2.1.3 installed and it is working fine for everything
else.
I was able to print a plain text file to the printer with the lp command a
while ago, but now it seems to be messed up again. I changed the
ownership of the files incorrectly possibly. They were owned by root, but
changed them to daemon:daemon as I read from some documentation.
Here is my /etc/printcap
laser|lp|HP LaserJet on AppleTalk:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/laser:\
:lp=/var/spool/lpd/laser/null:\
:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:pw#80:hl:\
:of=/usr/local/libexec/filters/ofpap:\
:if=/usr/local/libexec/filters/ifpaprev:\
:tf=/usr/local/libexec/filters/tfpaprev:\
:df=/usr/local/libexec/filters/dfpaprev:
The spool directory is set up and the filters are in place where is wants
them.
> ls -laR /var/spool/lpd/laser/
total 12
drwxrwx--- 2 daemon daemon 512 Jul 10 20:45 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root daemon 512 Jul 9 20:25 ..
-rwxrwx--- 1 daemon daemon 34 Jul 10 19:39 .paprc
-rw-r----x 1 daemon daemon 4 Jul 10 20:45 .seq
-rw-rw---- 1 daemon daemon 32 Jul 10 20:45 lock
crw-rw-rw- 1 daemon daemon 2, 2 Jul 10 20:45 null
-rw-rw-r-- 1 daemon daemon 28 Jul 10 20:45 status
My .paprc file is empty as it suggests my system does not need to specify
the PPD file, so have left it blank.
Is it obvious what I am doing wrong? Can someone tell mw how I can get it
working? Do you need more info?
Thanks for the help,
Brennan Stehling - web developer and sys admin
projects: www.greasydaemon.com | www.onmilwaukee.com | www.sncalumni.com
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