On Thu, 21 May 1998, Kevin A. Pieckiel wrote:
> I have a WinNT box with an LPR port added to send printer stuff
> to my Linux printer (laser). Linux is eating my print jobs! I
..
Some things to check:
Make sure that the "lp" module is being loaded. I.e., "lsmod", see if "lp"
is in the modules list. It's supposed to auto-load but that doesn't work
100% reliably for me in a heavily loaded environment :-(. Thus I created
/etc/rc.d/rc.modules and did a manual "insmod lp" there. (The reason Red
Hat doesn't do this is because the "lp" module conflicts with the "plip"
module, which they also provide in their regular kernel).
Next, make sure that NT is shipping your printer data that it understands.
I always set up my printer using the Red Hat printtool, meaning it's set
up as a Postscript printer, and then tell the client software that it is
printing to an Apple Laserwriter. Some printers just throw away data that
they don't understand. The /etc/printcap you showed us does not have the
Red Hat print filter stuff in it so you may wish to change that (even if
it really is a Postscript printer, the RH printer filter makes sure that
any plain text gets converted to Postscript).
Eric Lee Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] Executive Consultants
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