After upgrading to Debian 2.2 the day it became stable, I ceased being able to print to my AppleTalk printer. Tonight I realised my AppleTalk module had been deinstalled, so I reinstalled it, and atalkd seems to be running fine, but I'm still having printing problems.
papstatus shows the computer is online, and I can actually print PostScript files to it with pap -p, but printing to it with lpr sends an error message to my mailbox: ---------------------------------------------------- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: lp printer job "test" Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: lp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 22:02:06 -0700 Status: O Your printer job (test) could not be printed ---------------------------------------------------- Looking in the error log for the printer, I see many lines of the form "No printer specified and ./.paprc not found.", but there's no timestamp or job name on them. Printing fails even when I specify a printer name with lpr -P, however. My spool directory is /var/spool/lpd/lman, and I recreated it manually tonight using the instructions at the LinuxWorld page <http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-1999-04/lw-04-uptime_p.html>, which is extremely helpful for AppleTalk printing problems. And my spool directory does indeed contains a .paprc. Here is my /etc/printcap: ---------------------------------------------------- lp|lman:\ :lp=/dev/null:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lman:\ :sh:\ :pl#63:pw#80:px#3150:py#2400:\ :mx#0:\ :sf:\ :of=/usr/lib/atalk/filters/ofpap:\ :if=/usr/lib/atalk/filters/ifpap:\ :af=/var/log/lp-acct:\ :lf=/var/log/lp-errs: ---------------------------------------------------- Here is my papd.conf. I have tried both the commented-out and uncommented-out code (I found the latter when I searched the Debian User archives for "netatalk".) ---------------------------------------------------- #lman:\ #:pr=lp:op=root:\ #:pd=/usr/local/print/BLP_Elite.PPD: lman:\ :pr=|/usr/bin/lpr -Plp:\ :pd=/usr/local/print/BLP_Elite.PPD: ---------------------------------------------------- Any ideas? Your help is greatly appreciated. This list always comes through for me. Ron H-E -- Ron's Info Closet: Center for Ludic Synergy, Kennexions Glass Bead Game, Positive Revolution FAQ, Hexagram-8 I Ching Mailing List, and links... Ron Hale-Evans ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... <http://www.apocalypse.org/~rwhe/> Further up and further in! fnord
