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Date:      Sun, 19 Mar 2000 23:09:19 +0000
From:      Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org>
To:        Chip <chip@wiegand.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: lp daemon not running
Message-ID:  <20000319230919.A27032@parish>
In-Reply-To: <00031914211400.02091@chip.homenet>; from chip@wiegand.org on Sun, Mar 19, 2000 at 02:18:22PM -0800
References:  <20000319142242.B234@parish> <00031914211400.02091@chip.homenet>

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On Sun, Mar 19, 2000 at 02:18:22PM -0800, Chip wrote:
> Well, it works but the print jobs are just a lot of formatting codes
> Seems there must be some kind of filter I need now.
> This happens from the local machine and from the networked
> windows machines.
> Chip
> www.wiegand.org
> 
> 
> On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, Mark Ovens wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 10:44:54PM -0800, Chip wrote:
> > > I am settin up samba on my bsd box and allowing the rest of the family
> > > to print to it, they use win98, win95 and linux. When I tested it the
> > > following error showed up in the Printer Queue window:
> > > Warning: no daemon present
> > > How do I fix this?
> > 

Well, we'll need a bit more info first :)

What sort of printer is it? Is there any clue as to what the
formatting codes are? For example, Postscript files start:

%!PS-Adobe-2.0
%%Creator: 


> > Add
> > 
> > lpd_enable="YES"                # Run the line printer daemon.
> > 
> > to /etc/rc.conf to have it start automatically at boot time. To start
> > it immediately (without re-booting):
> > 
> >    # /usr/sbin/lpd
> > 
> > HTH
> > 
> > > Chip W
> > > www.wiegand.org
> > > 
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