Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 01:16:26 -0800 From: "Timothy L. Robertson" <timothyr@timothyr.net> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: LPRng and /dev/null: SOLVED Message-ID: <B894B4EA.B89B%timothyr@timothyr.com> In-Reply-To: <B8949E39.B890%timothyr@timothyr.com>
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Man, do I feel like a fool. Doing a make install from ports leaves the old lpr, lpq, lprm, and lpd files in /us/bin alone, so they show up first in the path. I needed to move them and symlink in the new files from /usr/local/bin for everything to work. On 2/16/02 11:39 PM, "Timothy L. Robertson" <timothyr@timothyr.net> wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I'm trying to set up my 4.5 box as a print server to a Windows GDI printer > using RedMon and GhostScript. I've got it working so that if I do > > cat file.ps | /usr/local/libexec/filters/gs_9700_smb > /dev/null > > Things work fine. (gs_9700_smb is a filter which sends the file over smb to > the windows box. Included below.) > > I installed LPRng from ports, and have a very simple printcap file: > > lp: > :lp=/dev/null > :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp > :filter=/usr/local/libexec/filters/gs_9700_smb > > But when I try to print a file I get: > > scarlet:~/prl 478$ lp test.ps > lpr: connect: No such file or directory > jobs queued, but cannot start daemon. > > Using checkpc, the LPRng diagnostic program gives > > scarlet:/home/timothyr 501# checkpc > 2002-02-16-23:33:36.457 scarlet lp: Checkwrite: fcntl F_SETFL of '/dev/null' > failed - Operation not supported by device > Warning - lp: cannot open lp device '/dev/null' - No Error > > Which looks to me like it's saying /dev/null doesn't act like a printer port > in some way. Any suggestions on how to make this work? > > Thanks, > -Tim > timothyr@timothyr.com > > scarlet:/home/timothyr 502# cat /usr/local/libexec/filters/gs_9700_smb > #!/bin/sh > # Print from Unix on a printer on SMB network. > # > client="DARKSTAR" # client name here... > pshare="GS9700" # and here printer share name > printfile="/tmp/smbspool.$$" > > cat > $printfile > if [ -s $printfile ] ; then > ( echo "translate" ; echo "print $printfile" ; echo "quit" ) \ > | smbclient \\\\$client\\$pshare printerpasswd -U printer -P -N > fi > rm -f $printfile > exit 0 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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