On Thu, Feb 19, 1998 at 03:16:44PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Wed, Feb 18, 1998 at 11:08:28AM -0800, Adam Klein wrote: > > I'm the maintainer of the lpr package, and there is a bug report > > saying that remote printing doesn't work. Has anyone else had this > > problem? > > Well, it works just fine here from 5.9-20.2 (client) to 5.9-20 (server), > and from 5.9-21 to 5.9-20 too. But the bug report talks about printing > from DOS software. But Actually, this is a different bug, #18295. It was reported against the latest version 5.9-23. The reason I wanted reports from other people is that I can't test the remote printing features of lpr myself. However, I wouldn't mind some help with the DOS problem. > > Warning: no daemon present > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > Rank Owner Job Files Total Size > > 1st nobody 209 C:\TMP\~lpt1D12.TMP 839 bytes > > This could be a telltale sign. Perhaps the original reporter had > other lpr problems and it just seemed to be a remote printing > problem? lpq will give this warning message when it has inadequate permissions. > I think one of my machines has an lpr installed on DOS, I will check > it out (but it's not the same implementation mentioned in the bug report). Thanks, Adam Klein
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