[expert] strange remote printing problem
Hi I admit that I do not understand much about the lpd. I hope someone does... If i submitt a job to a printer localy with "lpr -Pfax -C123456, a file with: Hlucy.exp.univie.ac.at Proot Jfax.txt C123456 Lroot fdfA035lucy.exp.univie.ac.at UdfA035lucy.exp.univie.ac.at Nfax.txt appears in the "spool" directory. However, if i do the same over the network, "C" field is absent. I can send the telephone number using the "J" field: "lpr -Pfax -C123456 -J98765" produces a: Pdenis J98765 fdfA006marvin.exp.univie.ac.at UdfA006marvin.exp.univie.ac.at N/tmp/fax.txt does anybody know what is going on here? Both computers have a "Mandrake 6.1" with lpr-0.43-1mdk installed. There is no input filter on remote computer. HELP! cu Denis
[expert] strange remote printing problem, part 2
My printing problem has become even wierder... If I submit a print-job to a remote machine, "cf*" and "df*" files appear in the spool directory with: -rw-rw 1 root root rw-rw On the other hand, if I submitt a job to a local machine, it is submitted as : -rw-rw 1 bin lp 149 Nov 9 02:50 cf* -rw-rw 1 denislp 31 Nov 9 02:50 df* Is this a feature or a bug? The script which I use as a "printer input filter" for sending faxes does not work remotely, and I think that it has something to do with this difference. Or, to put it the other way around: i could read all the data i need to send a fax from a "cf" file, but I cannot read it because the "if" gets called as denis.lp, and it cannot read the "cf" file. :-(( This is driving me completely nuts help? cu Denis
