On Sat, 1 Mar 1997, Scott Stanley wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Mar 1997, John Goerzen wrote: > > > This is *not* an acceptable fix. Other packages, for isntance Samba, > > will **NOT** work with lprng. > > This is nice to know.... actually, it's completely untrue. samba works very well with lprng. i've got it running on my system, using lprng & magicfilter with samba. no problems. it works. well, actually i had a few initial hassles getting the win95 box to print with the PCL driver. Postscript worked fine (through ghostscript to my HP4L), but PCL failed. Eventually somebody on debian-user suggested that I put "check_for_nonprintable no" in /etc/lpd.conf - as soon as I did this, i could print PCL. The problem wasn't in lprng, or in samba, it was in my config. If I had RTFM it wouldnt have been a problem at all. > Sounds like the thing to do is work on lpr to get it working. > Besides, I am running into as many problems getting lprng to work as > I was lpr. But, I think the lpr problems might be easier to track > down.... i disagree. lpr seems to be quite badly documented (i.e. almost none). lprng has good documentation. > Can anyone tell me what the differences are between lpr and lprng. > In what ways has lprng been ``enhanced and extended'', to quote the > package description. it seems to be a bit more flexible in what you can do with filters and network printers. e.g. i've got an HP4L connected to my main workstation siva (a 486-100 with 32mb). Mostly what i print is postscript stuff which means i have to use ghostscript. This works well, except that siva is so overworked at the moment that i really notice the system slowing down when i print. I used lprng to send postscript printjobs to kali (my newish 32mb cyrix 686-100). kali processes the print job with gs, and then dumps the PCL output back to siva for printing. Setting this up was quite easy. I could have moved the printer to kali's parallel port but that would have meant crawling under tables etc to move the cable. I don't like crawling under tables...in fact, I loathe it. lprng also seems much more configurable for permissions etc. craig
