Hi Daniel:
As indicated, I have tried to create links that will redirect to the new
lpr placed in /usr/local/bin
I did not redirect anything to /usr/local/sbin. My changes were:
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"
Thanks, Graham/
Daniel Marsh wrote:
On Thu, 04 Aug 2005 09:13:18 +0800, Graham North <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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/
Are you using the lpr that was installed with FreeBSD as part of the
base or the lpr supplier by the cups-lpr package?
FreeBSD base lpr is in /usr/bin|/usr/sbin and the cups-lpr is in
/usr/local/bin|/usr/local/sbin...
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