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Re: lprm says "Permission denied" (fwd)



> John Goerzen writes:
> > This is *not* an acceptable fix.  Other packages, for isntance Samba, will 
> > **NOT** work with lprng.
> 
> Why won't samba not work with it? Please file an appropriate bug against
> the samba package.

Because Samba depends on the output formats of the lp* commands, in particular, lpq.  It parses the output and converts it to the format suitable for displaying to Windows users.

Since LPRNG's lpq is different that LPR's lpq output, samba cannot parse it correctly. 
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