Re: lprng+samba+some_filter? (WAS: LPD network printing)

1997-03-17 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Fri, 14 Mar 1997, Adam Shand wrote: > I haven't yet tackled the .dvi thing (because I don't use DVI) but I have a > script that works with lpr and a shared windows printer via samba. If you > can figure out a way to detect dvi files then I can't see any reason why it > wouldn't work. Oh, than

Re: lprng+samba+some_filter? (WAS: LPD network printing)

1997-03-14 Thread Adam Shand
>The problem is that I cann't get these three things working together. What >I did what set magicfilter as an input filter (if=whatever), and a shell >script that calls samba_print as an output filter (of=whatever), >but this doesn't work. In the printcap, lp is set to /dev/null, but >there's noth

lprng+samba+some_filter? (WAS: LPD network printing)

1997-03-13 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On 13 Mar 1997, Graeme Stewart wrote: > This is a problem with the `lpr' package. My solution (the solution?) > was upgrade to lprng (in the unstable tree, but I've had no > problems). Some people have reported that it messes up Samba > configurations, but that seemed to be surmountable too (and i

Re: LPD network printing

1997-03-13 Thread Graeme Stewart
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim O'Brien) writes: > > but not over the network. Locally, lpr produces a text output quite nicely. > But over the network, nothing appears to happen. > > Using lpc and issuing stat, I find that the pritjob has queued locally, and > says it's waiting for the other machine to

LPD network printing

1997-03-13 Thread Tim O'Brien
Howdy, glad to be back after being away for a while.. Hope I haven't missed much :) A quick question regarding LPD and remote printing: I have two Debian boxen, both running kernel 2.0.6. One has a printer on it that functions locally, but not over the network. Locally, lpr produces a text output