From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 4 16:38:20 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D850816A41F for ; Thu, 4 Aug 2005 16:38:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from northg@shaw.ca) Received: from pd2mo3so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5653143D48 for ; Thu, 4 Aug 2005 16:38:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from northg@shaw.ca) Received: from pd5mr7so.prod.shaw.ca (pd5mr7so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.183]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IKP008DYI53VR90@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2005 10:36:39 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml5so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.149]) by pd5mr7so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IKP008DYI53SW10@pd5mr7so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2005 10:36:39 -0600 (MDT) Received: from [192.168.0.100] (S0106000f3d63c5a5.vc.shawcable.net [24.85.154.162]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.18 (built Jul 28 2003)) with ESMTP id <0IKP0051RI53Q1@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2005 10:36:39 -0600 (MDT) Received: from 127.0.0.1 (AVG SMTP 7.0.338 [267.10.0]); Thu, 04 Aug 2005 09:36:44 -0700 Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 09:36:43 -0700 From: Graham North In-reply-to: To: Daniel Marsh Message-id: <42F2441B.1020908@shaw.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Boundary_(ID_yPZHAVvdHiBgVW6MrYf0BA)" X-Accept-Language: en-us, en References: <42F16BAE.7040600@shaw.ca> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: questions freebsd Subject: Re: printing problems with CUPS on localhost server X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 16:38:21 -0000 --Boundary_(ID_yPZHAVvdHiBgVW6MrYf0BA) Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT 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 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... > > -- Kindness can be infectious - try it. Graham North Vancouver, BC www.soleado.ca --Boundary_(ID_yPZHAVvdHiBgVW6MrYf0BA) Content-type: text/plain; x-avg=cert; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline Content-description: "AVG certification" No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.10.0/63 - Release Date: 8/3/2005 --Boundary_(ID_yPZHAVvdHiBgVW6MrYf0BA)--