I just set up my FreeBSD box to act as a printserver. I used CUPs and
Samba following great directions found here:
http://www.ajl-tech.com/index2.php?option=content&do_pdf=1&id=16
The printserver works very nicely printing jobs from my WinXP client to
an hp4l printer attached to Freebsd, however it will not print files
from itself using lpr.
A bit of hunting found some "gotchas" at:
http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/cups.html ... and so I tried
adding symbolic links for the lp and lpr commands as per the author's
recommendations - see bottom of email.
The problem still exists however, now instead of getting error messages,
if I issue a "lpr filename" command, my printer gives a quick blink, no
errror messages are generated, but neither is printer output - nada!
Repeat - Samba and Cups work together fine on this elderly hp4l - print
all sorts from Windows. Just cannot access from the server itself.
I am sure that this is a simple configuration issue somewhere -
my printcap definition, ie: hp4l|lp|hp4l:rm=192.168.0.102:rp=hp4l:
ps. This was auto-generated from CUPs and oirignally was
"hp4l|hp4l:rm=192.168.0.102:rp=hp4l:"
(I later inserted the lp myself as CUPS does not, either way it doesn't
work.)
Can anyone please point me straight on this?
Thanks, Graham/
From "gotchas"
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"With FreeBSD, cups will place its configuration files in /usr/local/etc
rather than /etc. The lp or lpr command that you will use is also going
to be in /usr/local/bin rather than /usr/bin. As /usr/bin is listed
first in the path for both root and normal user, if one tries to print
using the command lp filename you'll get an error message.
There are various workarounds--one can edit the $PATH variable, type the
entire path, eg /usr/local/bin/lp or do it the lazy man's way, which, as
those who know me would expect, is what I did. I backed up the /usr/bin
lp and lpr and then sym linked /usr/local/bin's commands to them.
mv /usr/bin/lp /usr/bin/lp.bak
mv /usr/bin/lpr /usr/bin/lpr.bak
ln -s /usr/local/bin/lp /usr/bin/lp
ln -s /usr/local/bin/lpr /usr/bin/lpr"
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