A debian system I installed a week ago has a strange problem. It's Debian 1.2.0; lpr is installed. With the original IO card in it, the printer (LaserJet 5P) was online with paper etc but tunelp, the kernel and lpq all said the printer was out of paper and busy all the time.
So we changed the IO card to a new one. tunelp says that the printer is "222, on-line" ("tunelp /dev/lp1 -s"), but lpq still says it can't print, offline or out of paper? The kernel doesn't give any messages for this either; lpd just won't print anything. Unfortunately the owner is rather unix-clueless, and I don't have time to go out there soon, so if there's quick fix besides installing lprng, I'd appreciate hearing it. (I'm not opposed to installing lprng, but I don't want to have hassles with printcap etc over the phone. And I'd like to know that it'll help before suggesting it.) If lprng is the answer, is there really a problem with the different lpq format and samba, and is there a fix? All printing will be from Win95/WinNT machines, via samba. Thanks, Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science & computer systems engineering. 3rd year, RMIT. http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~moffatt (PGP key here) CPOM: [**** ] 40% -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .