From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 18 8:45:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp10.atl.mindspring.net (smtp10.atl.mindspring.net [207.69.200.246]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABFB137BEAD for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 08:45:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kc144@sprynet.com) Received: from kevin (chi-tgn-gvt-vty17.as.wcom.net [216.192.154.17]) by smtp10.atl.mindspring.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA03678 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 11:45:18 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <021101bff0cf$90de7da0$0100a8c0@144> From: "Kevin Gross" To: "questions" Subject: Printing from FreeBSD to WinNT Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 11:48:05 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all, I'm having a bit of a problem getting my FreeBSD 4-stable (as of 7/17/00) box to print to my WinNT 4.0sp6a machine. I have a fully functional network and samba set up correctly (in fact, my bsd box acts as a file server for the win machine). On my NT machine, I have a HP LaserJet 6L working correctly. On the BSD box, I installed the most recent apsfilter from the ports along with ghostscript. Just to test my apsfilter setup, I connected the laserjet to the FreeBSD box and everything works just fine (provided I change the apsfilter setup to reflect a lpt0 connection). So I am basically having a problem printing to NT over the network. When I set up apsfilter via the /usr/local/apsfilter/SETUP script to print to the NT printer, I apparently entered all the information correctly. I was able to print out the apsfilter test page through the laserjet connected to NT. But now I can't print out regular documents to the printer, i.e., $ lp document.txt $ lpr document.txt $ lpr -Plp document.txt and nothing happens. Nothing happens on the NT box, either. Here is my /etc/printcap (notice I have entries for the remote--lp and raw--and local--lp2 and raw2--connections): # @(#)printcap 5.3 (Berkeley) 6/30/90 # $FreeBSD: src/etc/printcap,v 1.10 1999/08/27 23:23:43 peter Exp $ # LABEL apsfilter # apsfilter setup Tue Jul 18 01:36:35 EDT 2000 # # DON'T DELETE THIS: # APS_BASEDIR:/usr/local/apsfilter # # APS1_BEGIN:printer1:ljet4:letter:600x600 # - don't delete start label for apsfilter printer1 # - no other printer defines between BEGIN and END LABEL # lp|aps1-ljet4-letter-auto-600x600|Printer1 ljet4 letter auto 600x600:\ :lp=/dev/null:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/printer1-ljet4-letter-auto-600x600:\ :lf=/var/spool/lpd/printer1-ljet4-letter-auto-600x600/log:\ :af=/var/spool/lpd/printer1-ljet4-letter-auto-600x600/acct:\ :if=/usr/local/apsfilter/filter/aps1-ljet4-letter-auto-600x600:\ :mx#0:\ :sh: raw|aps2-ljet4-letter-raw|Printer1 ljet4 letter raw:\ :lp=/dev/null:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/printer1-ljet4-letter-raw:\ :lf=/var/spool/lpd/printer1-ljet4-letter-raw/log:\ :af=/var/spool/lpd/printer1-ljet4-letter-raw/acct:\ :if=/usr/local/apsfilter/filter/aps2-ljet4-letter-raw:\ :mx#0:\ :sf:\ :sh: # APS1_END - don't delete this END LABEL for printer1 # # APS2_BEGIN:printer2:ljet4:letter:600x600 # - don't delete start label for apsfilter printer2 # - no other printer defines between BEGIN and END LABEL # lp2|aps3-ljet4-letter-auto-600x600|Printer2 ljet4 letter auto 600x600:\ :lp=/dev/lpt0:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/printer2-ljet4-letter-auto-600x600:\ :lf=/var/spool/lpd/printer2-ljet4-letter-auto-600x600/log:\ :af=/var/spool/lpd/printer2-ljet4-letter-auto-600x600/acct:\ :if=/usr/local/apsfilter/filter/aps3-ljet4-letter-auto-600x600:\ :mx#0:\ :sh: raw2|aps4-ljet4-letter-raw|Printer2 ljet4 letter raw:\ :lp=/dev/lpt0:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/printer2-ljet4-letter-raw:\ :lf=/var/spool/lpd/printer2-ljet4-letter-raw/log:\ :af=/var/spool/lpd/printer2-ljet4-letter-raw/acct:\ :if=/usr/local/apsfilter/filter/aps4-ljet4-letter-raw:\ :mx#0:\ :sf:\ :sh: # APS2_END - don't delete this END LABEL for printer2 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message