Well, excuse me while I just duck below the keyboard to wipe a few fairly
sizeable globs of egg off my cheek.
And before I start I want to that everyone whp has offered suggestions for help
in this issue - to Steve and Steve, Bernhard, Hidong, Craig, Uncle Meat \:-) and
any others who offered help.
Its funny how the *most important features* of a system, when they dont work
right, blind one to the most likely cause and in this case I went through all
the routines of updating this and that, checking out gotchas and How-Tos.
Making the necessary alterations along the way, but I forgot to check that what
the How_to said to do was (a) complete, and (b) entirely accurate.
You see the Printing How-To explains how to connect to a JetDirect card for
printing to a HP LaserJet on ethernet and provides the following:
lj-5|remote-hplj:\
:lp=/dev/null:sh:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lj-5:\
:rm=printer.name.com:rp=raw:
Which I edited to:
##PRINTTOOL3## REMOTE POSTSCRIPT 1200x1200 a4 {} PostScript Default {}
lj-5|remote-hplj:\
:\:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lpj-5:\
:\:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:\
:rm=192.168.6.8:\
:rp=lj-5|remote-hplj:\
:\:\
:if=/var/spool/lpd/lpj-5/filter:
What I didn't check was the aliases! the specs indicate lj-5 and remote-hplj
and on the RH51 box these worked fine. What I had to do to my one to print on
RH61 was add lp| at the start and she worked like, well you know what I mean...
Something so small causing so much frustration.
Alan
On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Uncle Meat wrote:
> On 10-Feb-00 AlphaByte opined:
> > Yup. :-)
> >
> > That's all hunky dory and it still doesnt work, it is broken. Oh by the
> > way, I
> > am not printing to the parallel port, this is via eth0 -- it is a remote
> > printer (and is therefore not supported.)
> >
> > Printtool does print test pages so that is not the problem. The problem
> > is that
> > unless an application is able to call the remote printer's shortname
> > specifically I can't use it -- printtool does this and so does printing
> > from the
> > command line. Virtually all applications call lpr or lpd and these are
> > what do
> > not work, for example KDE's email client calls the shortname and prints
> > fine.
>
> Don't know if this will work for you or not It worked (and works) for me.
>
> I created /var/spool/lpd/lp which is NOT what the printing stuff from redhat
> seems to want to use. I then symlinked it to /var/spool/lpd/lp0 It has
> worked for me that way since 5.1 and still works fine with 6.0 (I don't use
> the X.1 releases any more since the fiasco I had with 5.1 - I have no idea
> about this in 6.1).
>
> I, too, do remote printing to a 'Doze box, which is what I've used since
> the original problem cropped up. I let printtool link it to lp0 and my
> symlink is what it's REALLY going to (lp).
>
> Works like a charm for me.
>
> --
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