> ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- > Subject: Re: Problems with printing > Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 09:56:29 -0400 > From: Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > > Subject: Re: Problems with printing > Date: Wed, May 02, 2001 at 06:59:34AM -0000 > > In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Well, Wayne, I don't really think a Debian potato distribution fails in a > > strategic and basic piece of software such as apsfilter. I rather think > > there's something wrong in my configuration relating to authorizations but > > I don't know where and what to manipulate. Perhaps I missed to define some > > special group, or whatever else..... What strikes me is that the test which > > apsfilterconfig suggests works great, while any following attempt to print > > dies unexpectedly. Any suggestion to fix it before eliminating apsfilter? > > Vittorio
I just set up apsfilter last night, and I had the same problem--the test page printed fine, and I could cat stuff directly, but everything else failed. It turns out that the permissions of the printer device in /dev were set wrong-- read-only, no write for the lp group, which obviously doesn't make much sense for a printer using lprng for spooling. -Nelson
