Re: lprng needed by AUCTeX?

2009-09-06 Thread brownh
On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 01:06:16PM +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > I would like to know how you decided to install the "cups" package, since its > description says it provides a print *server*. Well, three reasons: a) I thought a print server would provide print services, and that's what I wa

Re: lprng needed by AUCTeX?

2009-09-06 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
I would like to know how you decided to install the "cups" package, since its description says it provides a print *server*. Nevertheless the cups package depends on the package "cups-clients" which contains "client programs (SysV)", i.e., the lp command for submitting a print job. So you don'nt n

Re: lprng needed by AUCTeX?

2009-09-05 Thread brownh
Wayne, You are quite correct that a google search using your search terms immediately provided the answer to my question, which arose from a bug in the documentation (#512098). I assumed (wrongly) that CUPS was broken, and so googled with the wrong search terms. The tools you point to were of

Re: lprng needed by AUCTeX?

2009-09-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 05:01:13PM -0400, brownh wrote: > > The answer is already on your system, if you had done some > > research. You seem to want others to research for you. > > > > Have you installed the cups-bsd package? > > Not sure what "on my system" means. The information associated

Re: lprng needed by AUCTeX?

2009-09-05 Thread Wayne Topa
brownh wrote: The answer is already on your system, if you had done some research. You seem to want others to research for you. Have you installed the cups-bsd package? Not sure what "on my system" means. The information associated with the packages for cups and auctex did not say I had to in

Re: lprng needed by AUCTeX?

2009-09-05 Thread Wayne Topa
brownh wrote: The answer is already on your system, if you had done some research. You seem to want others to research for you. Have you installed the cups-bsd package? Not sure what "on my system" means. The information associated with the packages for cups and auctex did not say I had to in

Re: lprng needed by AUCTeX?

2009-09-05 Thread brownh
> The answer is already on your system, if you had done some > research. You seem to want others to research for you. > > Have you installed the cups-bsd package? Not sure what "on my system" means. The information associated with the packages for cups and auctex did not say I had to install cups

Re: lprng needed by AUCTeX?

2009-09-05 Thread Wayne Topa
brownh wrote: Lprng provides lpr and is characterized as a BSD "spooling system". CUPS, on the other hand, is described as a "printing system". I installed CUPS but not lpr/lprng. I cannot print from AUCTeX: Running `Print' on `test' with ``dvips -P hp_Laserjet_1320_series_USB_1 test

Re: lprng + magicfilter + hpijs => hp deskjet 680c

2007-11-13 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Nov 7, 2007 9:11 PM, s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Javier Vasquez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On 11/4/07, Javier Vasquez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > ... > > Please, what does "I can't get to use" mean? Error messages? Log > entries? See /var/log for the latter. The error i

Re: lprng + magicfilter + hpijs => hp deskjet 680c

2007-11-07 Thread s. keeling
Javier Vasquez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 11/4/07, Javier Vasquez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I have a HP-680C deskject printer that I wanted to make it work with > > lprng + magicfilter + hpijs. So far no luck. I seems like I'm able > > to use the filter: > > > > /etc/magicfilter/dj550c-f

Re: lprng + magicfilter + hpijs => hp deskjet 680c

2007-11-04 Thread Javier Vasquez
On 11/4/07, Javier Vasquez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a HP-680C deskject printer that I wanted to make it work with > lprng + magicfilter + hpijs. So far no luck. I seems like I'm able > to use the filter: > > /etc/magicfilter/dj550c-filter > > But for some reason I can't get to

Re: LPRng, Debian, and OS X

2004-07-23 Thread Jim McCloskey
Responding to my own message, in case it helps others with the same problem. On Thursday July 15th, I wrote: |> I have a Debian (testing) box which runs LPRng version 3.8.27-1 as |> its printer spooler. |> |> I have set up /etc/hosts.lpd and /etc/lprng/lpd.perms so that this |> box will handle pr

Re: LPRng, Debian, and OS X

2004-07-16 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Friday 2004-07-16 01:25 am, Jim McCloskey wrote: > Well, it's not *my* Mac . Given that you stated "OS X" in the subject line, yes it is - unless you've done some serious surgery to your setup. > More seriously, I've configured CUPS before on a different system, and > that experience was

Re: LPRng, Debian, and OS X

2004-07-16 Thread John Summerfield
Jim McCloskey wrote: |> And what's wrong with CUPS? It's what's on your Mac. Well, it's not *my* Mac . More seriously, I've configured CUPS before on a different system, and that experience was as horrific as Eric Raymond's[1]. And using CUPS to solve this tiny problem seems like overkill in

Re: LPRng, Debian, and OS X

2004-07-16 Thread John Summerfield
Jim McCloskey wrote: |> And what's wrong with CUPS? It's what's on your Mac. Well, it's not *my* Mac . More seriously, I've configured CUPS before on a different system, and that experience was as horrific as Eric Raymond's[1]. And using CUPS to solve this tiny problem seems like overkill in

Re: LPRng, Debian, and OS X

2004-07-16 Thread John Summerfield
Jim McCloskey wrote: |> And what's wrong with CUPS? It's what's on your Mac. Well, it's not *my* Mac . More seriously, I've configured CUPS before on a different system, and that experience was as horrific as Eric Raymond's[1]. And using CUPS to solve this tiny problem seems like overkill in

Re: LPRng, Debian, and OS X

2004-07-15 Thread Jim McCloskey
|> And what's wrong with CUPS? It's what's on your Mac. Well, it's not *my* Mac . More seriously, I've configured CUPS before on a different system, and that experience was as horrific as Eric Raymond's[1]. And using CUPS to solve this tiny problem seems like overkill in the extreme, Jim

Re: LPRng, Debian, and OS X

2004-07-15 Thread John Summerfield
Jim McCloskey wrote: Has anyone here seen this problem, or does anyone know of a fix? And please don't let the fix be `change to CUPS'. And what's wrong with CUPS? It's what's on your Mac. -- Cheers John -- spambait [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tourist pics http://portgeographe.environm

Re: LPRng, Debian, and OS X

2004-07-15 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 10:20:19AM -0700, Jim McCloskey wrote: } I have a Debian (testing) box which runs LPRng version 3.8.27-1 as its } printer spooler. } } I have set up /etc/hosts.lpd and /etc/lprng/lpd.perms so that this box } will handle print-requests from the laptops that are also part of

Re: LPRng and LaserWriter 8.7.1 Very Slow

2003-03-28 Thread Marc Wilson
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 04:23:17PM -0800, Nate Slater wrote: > Thanks for your help, Marc. I'm beginning to see from the LPRng list > that new versions of LPRng don't work with Mac OS 9 clients. I'll > probably do some shopping around for another LPR server. I'd like to see one of those referenc

Re: LPRng and LaserWriter 8.7.1 Very Slow

2003-03-28 Thread Nate Slater
Thanks for your help, Marc. I'm beginning to see from the LPRng list that new versions of LPRng don't work with Mac OS 9 clients. I'll probably do some shopping around for another LPR server. Just a quick question to everyone on the list before I leave: Do any of you have a favorite LPR server

Re: LPRng and LaserWriter 8.7.1 Very Slow

2003-03-27 Thread Nate Slater
On 3/26/03 8:25 PM, "Marc Wilson msw-at-cox.net |Debian Maling List|" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've done it, but don't have any insights to offer, I'm afraid. For my OS > X box (iBook), it was just a question of pointing to the queue on the Linux > box. For my OS 9 box (PMac 6100/66 w/ G3),

Re: LPRng and LaserWriter 8.7.1 Very Slow

2003-03-26 Thread Marc Wilson
On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 06:35:26PM -0800, Nate Slater wrote: > Does anyone have any experience setting up LPRng for Mac clients? Do I need > to take special measures? I've done it, but don't have any insights to offer, I'm afraid. For my OS X box (iBook), it was just a question of pointing to the

Re: lprng won't print

2002-10-16 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya you need to add your ip# (range) to /etc/hosts.perms files that lprng uses c ya alvin On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Rick Pasotto wrote: > Running debian sid. > > Using lprngtool I've setup a local printer (/dev/lp0) accessible as > client and server. > > The 'configuration validation' under 't

Re: LPRng and remote printers

2002-05-04 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Sat, May 04, 2002 at 01:49:51PM +0100, Keith O'Connell wrote: > > Have a look at > > /etc/lprng/lpd.perms > > > > Du you have a line in it like: > > REJECT NOT SERVER > > Yes I do! > Is this good or bad? > Are we making progress here? Well, it's a good default, but it prevents you from doing

Re: LPRng and remote printers

2002-05-04 Thread Keith O'Connell
On Sat, 4 May 2002 14:05:34 +0200 Hans Gubitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hans, > Have a look at > /etc/lprng/lpd.perms > > Du you have a line in it like: > REJECT NOT SERVER Yes I do! Is this good or bad? Are we making progress here? Keith -- _

Re: LPRng and remote printers

2002-05-04 Thread Hans Gubitz
Have a look at /etc/lprng/lpd.perms Du you have a line in it like: REJECT NOT SERVER Hans On Sat, May 04, 2002 at 11:38:24AM +0100, Keith O'Connell wrote: > Hi, > > I have 3 machines here all running Woody and a HP Deskjet attached to one of > them. I obviously want all of them to be able to

Re: LPRng and remote printers

2002-05-04 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya keith all lines should start with : and end with ":\" except first and last lines for aragon lp:HP Deskjet:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\ :sh:\ :ml=0:\ :mx=0:\ :af=/var/spool/lpd/lp/acct:\ :lf=/var/spool/lpd/lp/log:\ :cd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\

Re: lprng 3.8.4-2 - network printer configuration?

2002-01-29 Thread Henry House
On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 10:54:04PM +0100, Florian Petri wrote: > I have a problem configuring my network printer. > > excerpt /etc/printcap: > brother|Remote printer entry > :[EMAIL PROTECTED] >:sd=/var/spool/lpd/remote Here is my working configuration for a network laser printer

Re: LPRNG vulnerability [was Re: weird messages in syslog]

2001-11-21 Thread nate
Jim McCloskey said: > > I've not had to deal with such an exploit before, so I would really > appreciate any advice that's going. I've stopped the lprng daemon > for now, until I can tighten things up. depending on the box and it's uses most likely if it was mine i would reinstall. thats really t

Re: lprng & ps-to-printer.fpi

2001-10-25 Thread Emiel Metselaar
On Thursday 25 October 2001 14:42, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 02:28:09PM +0200, Emiel Metselaar wrote: > > I was trying to print using lprng on a woody machine and it did not work. > > After some poking around i found that in > > /usr/share/lprngtool/ps-to-printer.fpi something d

Re: lprng & ps-to-printer.fpi

2001-10-25 Thread Emiel Metselaar
On Thursday 25 October 2001 14:28, Emiel Metselaar wrote: > I was trying to print using lprng on a woody machine and it did not work. > After some poking around i found that in > /usr/share/lprngtool/ps-to-printer.fpi something did not work allright. > > It seems that the line "source ${SPOOLDIR}/p

Re: lprng & ps-to-printer.fpi

2001-10-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 02:28:09PM +0200, Emiel Metselaar wrote: > I was trying to print using lprng on a woody machine and it did not work. > After some poking around i found that in > /usr/share/lprngtool/ps-to-printer.fpi something did not work allright. > > It seems that the line "source ${SP

Re: LPRng vs. CUPS?

2001-07-25 Thread W. Paul Mills
I use plain old LPR. Tried LPRng and CUPS recently. Could not get either to work well with my setup. (One Epson and one Canon printer on a Netgear server.) Went back. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wayne) writes: > Hi, > Can someone explain the pros and cons of each print system. > Judging from e-mail that

Re: LPRng vs. CUPS?

2001-07-25 Thread Alan Shutko
Wayne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can someone explain the pros and cons of each print system. Judging > from e-mail that's been passing thru this SIG most people seem to be > using CUPS. LPRng: It's LPR. That's the pro and the con. CUPS: It's not LPR. Again, that's the pro and the con. In

Re: lprng for a home computer

2001-07-22 Thread Joost Kooij
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 02:06:21AM +0900, Marshal Wong wrote: > Philipp Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I can't help you with your lprng question, but a firewall actually > > makes sense even on a stand-alone workstation or laptop. You can > > filter in the input chain just like you'd do on

Re: lprng for a home computer

2001-07-22 Thread Lamer
lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Philipp Lehman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Debian User" Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 1:06 AM Subject: Re: lprng for a home computer > Philipp Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > I can't help you with

Re: lprng for a home computer

2001-07-22 Thread Marshal Wong
Philipp Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I can't help you with your lprng question, but a firewall actually > makes sense even on a stand-alone workstation or laptop. You can > filter in the input chain just like you'd do on a dedicated firewall > host. I'm not an expert on firewalls, but

Re: lprng for a home computer

2001-07-20 Thread Philipp Lehman
On 21 Jul 2001, Marshal Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I run a laptop (PowerBook Prismo) and have a USB HP Printer attached >to it, which works, thanks to the great work at HP. (Too bad there are >no debs, but recompiling gs wasn't that hard.) > >I'm hardening my computer, since I have and ISDN

Re: lprng problem. Problem Solved :-)

2001-05-20 Thread Erik Steffl
Joel Mayes wrote: > > On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 11:17:18AM -0500, Dana J . Laude wrote: > > On Sat, 19 May 2001 00:22:35 Joel Mayes wrote: > > > Thanks to everyone who responded, both on and off list, > > > I've installed CUPS and everything is now A-KO > > > > Did you happen to use the debian packa

Re: lprng problem. Problem Solved :-)

2001-05-19 Thread Joel Mayes
On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 11:17:18AM -0500, Dana J . Laude wrote: > On Sat, 19 May 2001 00:22:35 Joel Mayes wrote: > > Thanks to everyone who responded, both on and off list, > > I've installed CUPS and everything is now A-KO > > Did you happen to use the debian packages, or did you > try the ones f

Re: lprng problem. Problem Solved :-)

2001-05-19 Thread Dana J . Laude
On Sat, 19 May 2001 00:22:35 Joel Mayes wrote: > Thanks to everyone who responded, both on and off list, > I've installed CUPS and everything is now A-KO Did you happen to use the debian packages, or did you try the ones from cups.org? I tried the .deb from cups.org, although it seems you have to

Re: lprng problem. Problem Solved :-)

2001-05-19 Thread Joel Mayes
Thanks to everyone who responded, both on and off list, I've installed CUPS and everything is now A-KO Thanks Again Joel On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 02:26:52PM -0700, Steve Gran wrote: > On Fri, 18 May 2001, Joel Mayes wrote: > > > > > On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 10:45:00PM -0500, Dana J . Laude wrote

Re: lprng problem.

2001-05-18 Thread Steve Gran
On Fri, 18 May 2001, Joel Mayes wrote: > > On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 10:45:00PM -0500, Dana J . Laude wrote: > > On Thu, 17 May 2001 18:29:12 Joel Mayes wrote: > > > G'day All, > > > > > > I'm running Debian testing with kernel 2.4.4 and can not get my > > printer > > > ( a HP deskjet 690C ) to w

Re: lprng problem.

2001-05-18 Thread Dana J . Laude
> G'day Dana, > Thanks for the reply I've followed your advise but still no > luck, ( no change at all actualy ) just a black page or a > "No way to print this type of file, ASCII Text' message, > printed on the printer :( > > I'll agree with you about Debian though, it is the best Dist > I've c

Re: lprng problem.

2001-05-18 Thread Joel Mayes
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 10:45:00PM -0500, Dana J . Laude wrote: > On Thu, 17 May 2001 18:29:12 Joel Mayes wrote: > > G'day All, > > > > I'm running Debian testing with kernel 2.4.4 and can not get my > printer > > ( a HP deskjet 690C ) to work, I have the parport, partport_pc, and > lp > > load

Re: lprng problem.

2001-05-17 Thread Dana J . Laude
On Thu, 17 May 2001 18:29:12 Joel Mayes wrote: > G'day All, > > I'm running Debian testing with kernel 2.4.4 and can not get my printer > ( a HP deskjet 690C ) to work, I have the parport, partport_pc, and lp > loaded with the correct irq, ect settings. but any request to the printer > ejects

Re: lprng: printing to a remote host

2001-03-25 Thread Igor Mozetic
> on satan, i created an /etc/hosts.lpd with the contents "192.168.0.3". > ipchains on satan is empty. lprng uses /etc/lpd.perms instead (which is part of the package). -Igor Mozetic

Re: lprng+magicfilter: How to print to M$windows queue?

2001-03-11 Thread Roberto Diaz
> I currently have a Debian box and a M$windows 98 box connetcted via network. > The M$windows box has a usable printer, a Lexmark 5700, and I want to use it > to print from my debian box. I know it should've been the other way around, i > know it's possible and it's been done before with a differ

Re: lprng nightmare

2001-02-22 Thread Roberto Diaz
> This is a linux box.. i386 > vivaldi:~# lpd -F > Fatal error - Another print spooler is using TCP printer port - not LPRng > vivaldi:~# fuser -n tcp 515 > vivaldi:~# fuser -n udp 515 After half an hour now magically it is working.. but I am having this problem a lot of times.. each time the lpd

Re: lprng not working

2001-01-11 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 06:26:53PM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: Hi, > my lpd is not working correctly. The init script is loaded at boottime, > but no daemon is started. When I try to start it manually, the following > happens: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] # /etc/init.d/lprng start > Starting printer spool

Re: lprng/samba/win98 problem, at a loss to know what to do

2000-11-27 Thread Bob Nielsen
I had a similar problem with my Lexmark Optra E312 and discovered that the Lexmark Windows driver sent the job as PJL, which the ps600 filter rejects. Since the Optra can process PJL, I edited the filter to add that (using the information from another filter which did PJL). Before I got that to

Re: lprng and magicfilter problem

2000-11-27 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 08:26:18PM +1030, Paul Schulz wrote: Hi, > I have set lprng and magicfilter up on a server to print to a "HP > Laserjet 6p", a non-postscript printer. Works well when I print from > this host. (I've set the magicfilter to 'ljet2p'.) > > I set up my laptop to talk to prin

Re: lprng and magicfilter problem

2000-11-25 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 15:24:07 +0100, Daniel Reuter wrote: > lprng runs the inputfilters by default on the host on which the job is > issued, and NOT on the server with the printer attached. That means the > host has to do the work of rendering anything, the server lprng just > forwards the job d

Re: lprng and magicfilter problem

2000-11-24 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Thank you!!, I will try it tonight (after apt-get update with the new address...) On Fri, 24 Nov 2000 15:45:18 -0200 (EDT), Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: >On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > >> >> How can I install lprng?. I looked for it in the potato's CD but I didn't >> find i

Re: lprng and magicfilter problem

2000-11-24 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > > How can I install lprng?. I looked for it in the potato's CD but I didn't > find it apt-get install lprng put a correct source in /etc/apt/sources.list, such as: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free and it'll be

Re: lprng and magicfilter problem

2000-11-24 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hi! On Fri, 24 Nov 2000 15:24:07 +0100 (MET), Daniel Reuter wrote: >lprng runs the inputfilters by default on the host on which the job is >issued, How can I install lprng?. I looked for it in the potato's CD but I didn't find it Thanks! Marcelo _ Marcelo Chiapparini [EMA

Re: lprng and magicfilter problem

2000-11-24 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello Paul, lprng runs the inputfilters by default on the host on which the job is issued, and NOT on the server with the printer attached. That means the host has to do the work of rendering anything, the server lprng just forwards the job directly to the printer. Up to now I havn't found out ho

Re: lprng: remote printing

2000-09-22 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
"Paul D. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a bunch of networked printers available (no local printers). So, > I created entries like this in /etc/printcap: > [... story about failing network printing ...] > > Thoughts? A little bit OT, but have a look at the cupsys packages (take the

Re: lprng: remote printing

2000-09-22 Thread Igor Mozetic
> I have a bunch of networked printers available (no local printers). So, > I created entries like this in /etc/printcap: > > 6tp4s65hp:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:client > > 6tp4s65hp-dup:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:client > > 6tp4s65qms:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:client > > (don't ask me, I didn't name 'em :). If

Re: lprng out of date?

2000-07-25 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 03:33:07PM -0500, Charles Lewis wrote: > Anyone know why the lprng package is so out of date? The current package is > based on release 3.6.12 (10/26/99) and their have been a host of updates > (current release 3.6.22) since then. Maybe it's because of the frozen state > of

Re: lprng / network printers

2000-04-06 Thread Ramin Motakef
Harry ten Berge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > We have installed a new server (Debian 2.1) with a couple of network > printers attached. when there's a lot of jobs for one printer the lpr > command replies with "...connection refused". We've left the > '/etc/lpd.conf' to its original state

Re: LPRng Printing Problem

1999-12-03 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 03:18:13PM +, David B. Wilson wrote: > Mirek Kwasniak wrote: > > > #! /bin/sh > > > gs -sDEVICE=pbmraw -q -dNOPAUSE -r600 -sOutputFile=- - | \ > > > pbm2ppa - - | > >^ > >Why this pipe? > pbm2ppa converts the ghostscript output into somet

Re: LPRng Printing Problem

1999-12-03 Thread David B. Wilson
Mirek Kwasniak wrote: > > #! /bin/sh > > gs -sDEVICE=pbmraw -q -dNOPAUSE -r600 -sOutputFile=- - | \ > > pbm2ppa - - | >^ >Why this pipe? pbm2ppa converts the ghostscript output into something my HP 720 can understand (ppa?). The above script is verbatum from the pb

Re: LPRng Printing Problem (no remote printing)

1999-12-03 Thread Bruno Boettcher
> > ACCEPT SERVICE=M SAMEHOST SAMEUSERACCEPT SERVICE=M SERVER REMOTEUSER=root > ^^^ > I think, this is in a separate line? yes bad cut&paste... > $ checkpc what's that??? i haven't this comm

Re: LPRng Printing Problem (no remote printing)

1999-12-03 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
Hi, I use lprng but maybe I help you On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 03:29:25PM +0100, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > Hello, > > i use this thread since it is alive to report my own problem, having problems > with remote printing and standard lpd (the jobs were stored on the server with > a uid/gid that the l

Re: LPRng Printing Problem (no remote printing)

1999-12-03 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello, i use this thread since it is alive to report my own problem, having problems with remote printing and standard lpd (the jobs were stored on the server with a uid/gid that the lpd daemon couldn't retreive, filling my var completely up blocking other services as mail etc...) i tryyed to swit

Re: LPRng Printing Problem

1999-12-03 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 02:24:24PM +0100, Petru NOTINGHER wrote: > Try to use the stable version (3.5.xx). It fixed my problem. I don't have any problem with lprng :) > > Mirek Kwasniak wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 04:53:18PM -0500, David Wilson wrote: > > > > > thanks for the advice.

Re: LPRng Printing Problem

1999-12-03 Thread Petru NOTINGHER
Try to use the stable version (3.5.xx). It fixed my problem. Mirek Kwasniak wrote: On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 04:53:18PM -0500, David Wilson wrote: > thanks for the advice.  changing (fixing) permissions did not work.  what > is the difference between "chown lp " and "chown lp.lp "? i > tried it bot

Re: LPRng Printing Problem

1999-12-03 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 04:53:18PM -0500, David Wilson wrote: > thanks for the advice. changing (fixing) permissions did not work. what > is the difference between "chown lp " and "chown lp.lp "? i > tried it both ways. In potato current lprng (3.6.12-1) uses daemon.lp uid/gid. Mirek

Re: LPRng Printing Problem

1999-12-03 Thread Giacomo Mulas
Also check /etc/lpd.perms. It has stricter defaults in the potato version, it seems. I had to work a bit with that to get it to work, but now it definitely does. It is not broken (for me) in potato. Bye Giacomo Giac

Re: LPRng Printing Problem

1999-12-02 Thread David Wilson
thanks for the advice. changing (fixing) permissions did not work. what is the difference between "chown lp " and "chown lp.lp "? i tried it both ways. i tried to roll back to the slink version of lprng but my method must not have been correct. first, i edited /etc/apt/sources.list changing u

Re: LPRng Printing Problem

1999-12-02 Thread ^chewie
On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 08:54:19AM -0500, David Wilson wrote: I recently installed potato and am new to Linux. I seem unable to print using LPRng and haven't found any helpful information in HOW-TOs, although I'm sure the info I need is there somewhere. When I issue the "lpr file.ps" command, no

Re: LPRng Printing Problem

1999-12-02 Thread David Wilson
I also tried to a remote network printer (Novell) and had the same problem. If it is a bug, how do I (we) determine which package has the problem for filing a bug report? That I am not the only one experiencing the problem gives me faith that I wasn't doing something too stupid. Dave >>> Pet

Re: LPRng Printing Problem

1999-12-02 Thread Petru NOTINGHER
Mirek Kwasniak wrote: On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 03:55:10PM +0100, Petru NOTINGHER wrote: > I have exactly the same problem, but with a remote (network) printer. I tried lpd instead of LprNG, the problem > stays. > > It might be a bug somewhere. Maybe we should file a bug report ? Why? I and many ot

Re: LPRng Printing Problem

1999-12-02 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 03:55:10PM +0100, Petru NOTINGHER wrote: > I have exactly the same problem, but with a remote (network) printer. I tried > lpd instead of LprNG, the problem > stays. > > It might be a bug somewhere. Maybe we should file a bug report ? Why? I and many others use lprng for

Re: LPRng Printing Problem

1999-12-02 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
Hi, On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 08:54:19AM -0500, David Wilson wrote: > I recently installed potato and am new to Linux. I seem unable to print > using LPRng and haven't found any helpful information in HOW-TOs, although > I'm sure the info I need is there somewhere. When I issue the "lpr file.ps"

Re: LPRng Printing Problem

1999-12-02 Thread Petru NOTINGHER
I have exactly the same problem, but with a remote (network) printer. I tried lpd instead of LprNG, the problem stays. It might be a bug somewhere. Maybe we should file a bug report ? Petru David Wilson wrote: > I recently installed potato and am new to Linux. I seem unable to print > using

Re: LPRng

1999-11-24 Thread John Pearson
On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 05:17:28PM +0100, Petru NOTINGHER wrote > Hello. > > I've recently upgraded to the latest version of lprng, and I have the > following problem. > > I have a network printer, and I declared its address in /etc/printcap. > > When I print a file, everything seems allright,

Re: lprng help follow-up.

1999-11-09 Thread tjm
Thanks for the help, but still not working. I've added the lpr_bounce stuff to the printcap and it seems that the filter is being run, but no conversion is taking place. For plain text files, the control codes in the dj550c-filter that should be used somewhere along the line are being printed as

Re: lprng help

1999-11-08 Thread Nick Phillips
> dont you need SAMBA installed/configed to print to a printer shared out > over SMB(be it win9x nt or some other form of SMB sharing) > > i think so. could be wrong tho In this case, you are. The TCP/IP print services for NT are a sort of lpd for NT, so if you set lprng up right, it should work.

Re: lprng help

1999-11-08 Thread James Dietrich
On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 01:00:29PM -0800, tjm wrote: > Hi. I'm trying to us lprng to print to a remote printer, > an HP870, on an nt network. nt is running the tcp/ip > print services and I can get plain text to print just fine. > However, it seems that the if= is not being used for > other docum

Re: lprng help

1999-11-08 Thread aphro
dont you need SAMBA installed/configed to print to a printer shared out over SMB(be it win9x nt or some other form of SMB sharing) i think so. could be wrong tho nate On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, tjm wrote: tmolli >Hi. I'm trying to us lprng to print to a remote printer, tmolli >an HP870, on an nt netw

Re: LPRng problem.

1999-07-27 Thread Laurent Martelli
> "Bill" == Bill Shui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bill> Shao Zhang wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 08:36:14PM +1000, Bill Shui wrote: > Hi, >> > I am having some problems with setting up my LPRng. > I was >> wondering if anyone could help me out here. >> >> If you just install

Re: LPRng problem.

1999-07-27 Thread Shao Zhang
I have a HP5L and I think it should be compatable with 6L. Here is my printcap and filter. On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 10:34:18PM +1000, Bill Shui wrote: > Shao Zhang wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 08:36:14PM +1000, Bill Shui wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I am having some problems with setting up

Re: LPRng problem.

1999-07-27 Thread Shao Zhang
try to remove the lpd package first use dpkg --purge, this will get rid of the config file(ie. /etc/init.d/lpd), and you may remove the lprng package as well and reinstall it to make sure your system is *clean*. don't know why you had lpd in /usr/local/bin, you should not have anything under /usr/

Re: LPRng problem.

1999-07-27 Thread Bill Shui
Shao Zhang wrote: > On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 08:36:14PM +1000, Bill Shui wrote: > > Hi, > > I am having some problems with setting up my LPRng. > > I was wondering if anyone could help me out here. > > If you just install lprng package and have a working printcap file, > then

Re: LPRng problem.

1999-07-27 Thread Shao Zhang
On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 08:36:14PM +1000, Bill Shui wrote: > Hi, > I am having some problems with setting up my LPRng. > I was wondering if anyone could help me out here. If you just install lprng package and have a working printcap file, then it should be fine. > I ha

Re: Lprng and magicfilter

1999-05-19 Thread Jose L Gomez Dans
Hi. > Hello all I have a question, I am I have a HP Laserjet 5M printer and > I am trying to print a normal text file. It sends the job to the printer > but it scrols to the right hand side of the page. I can print a > postscript file just fine. I tried using the magicfilter file file for > laser

Re: LPRng spooling and small HDDs

1999-05-13 Thread John Pearson
On %M 0, Jose L Gomez Dans wrote > > Hi! > I finally got my SMB printer server to work. Sorry for all the > e-mails trying to figure out what was wrong. In true fact, the spooling > stopped because the system ran out of disk space. Apparently, the server > gets the file without problems, but

Re: lprng from slink (Debian 2.1) so secure can't use it!!!

1999-03-16 Thread Jens Ritter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (James D. Freels) writes: > The following message is a courtesy copy of an article > that has been posted to linux.debian.user as well. > > I just upgraded from hamm to slink. I have found one problem with the > upgrade in the lprng package. I downgraded to the hamm version un

Re: lprng and slink

1999-03-09 Thread Gustavo Gonzalez
Yes, my problem would a bit more obscured by the fact of gs conflicts with magicfilter. I am able to print plain text docs. However, HTML, ps and pdf formats cannot be prited without serious errors. Thus I prefer to wait for the slink release in CD. I am using now other distributions (OpenLinux 1

RE: lprng and slink

1999-03-09 Thread Peter Ludwig
You are absolutely wright! I just downgrade to hamm for the same problem. I could print in text mode only, but I think the problem was not due to permission mistakes. Anyway I will stop the upgrade to slink to total defrozen. > The following message is a courtesy copy of an article > that has bee

Re: lprng from slink (Debian 2.1) so secure can't use it!!!

1999-03-09 Thread Gustavo Gonzalez
You are absolutely wright! I just downgrade to hamm for the same problem. I could print in text mode only, but I think the problem was not due to permission mistakes. Anyway I will stop the upgrade to slink to total defrozen. James D. Freels wrote: > The following message is a courtesy copy of

Re: LPRNG BUG? (WAS: truncated printing)

1999-02-04 Thread Madarasz Karoly
"Harrison, Shawn" wrote: > > night I removed lprng (using dselect) and installed lpr (cd > /cdrom/.../net && dpkg -i lpr_*.deb), and now the problem is gone. I'd be Replaceing lprng with lpr solved my problem too. > For the Debian List: Is this a bug with LPRNG? Or could it be a > configuratio

Re: LPRng - I give up!!

1999-01-31 Thread Carey Evans
Chuck Stickelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > All I wanted was to setup LPRng to use the nice, new remote printer > server I bought (and the one my client bought...). I wanted to use > magicfilter so we didn't have to worry about setting-up all of the > applications to output in PCL (one can't..

Re: LPRng - I give up!!

1999-01-31 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Sat, 30 Jan 1999, Chuck Stickelman wrote: > If *anyone* knows what's needed, **PLEASE** let me know. [Specifically, > anyone who's gotten the "bq=" statement to work and shares the knowledge > gets a virtual bear and a GREAT BIG THANK YOU!] > > Here's the printcap entries in question: > lps|L

Re: [LPRng] Remote Printer and if filters

1999-01-30 Thread Michael E. Touloumtzis
> Here's the new printcap entry: > > lp|HP Laserjet5L:\ > :[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\ > :[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\ > :sd=/var/spool/lpd/hplj5l:\ > :sh:\ > :pw#80:\ > :pl#60:\ > :px#1440:\ > :mx#0:\ > :if=/etc/magicfilter/ljjet4l-filter:\ >

Re: [LPRng] Remote Printer and if filters

1999-01-30 Thread Chuck Stickelman
"Michael E. Touloumtzis" wrote: > On Fri, Jan 29, 1999 at 04:58:58PM -0500, Chuck Stickelman wrote: > > > > Here's what I'd guess to be a simple one. > You are correct. But problems always look simpler _after_ they are > solved ;-). > Good news. It's a little harder than I initially realized.

Re: [LPRng] Remote Printer and if filters

1999-01-29 Thread Michael E. Touloumtzis
On Fri, Jan 29, 1999 at 04:58:58PM -0500, Chuck Stickelman wrote: > > Here's what I'd guess to be a simple one. You are correct. But problems always look simpler _after_ they are solved ;-). > I've recently purchased a print server from Lantronix (LPS1-T) and I'm > able to print to is using a >

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