Printing to a windows shared printer

[Ian Lynagh <ian@lynagh.demon.co.uk>]

Hi all!

I am having some problems with printing to a windows shared printer
over the network. It is a NEC SuperScript 860.

If I do "lpr -Pnec myfile.txt" then the green light goes
blink-blink...blink-blink...blink-blink...
which means "PCL data left in printer". Pressing the button on the front
makes the text print.

However, if I attempt to print from lyx then I get what looks like
the contents of a dvi to my untrained eye.

Does anyone know how I can fix this?

I am using lpr, not lprng.

Here is my /etc/printcap:
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
lp|lj|hplj4l|HP Laserjet 4L:\
        :lp=/dev/lp1:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hplj4l:\
        :sh:pw#80:pl#72:px#1440:mx#0:\
        :if=/etc/magicfilter/ljet4l-filter:\
        :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs:

nec:\
      :lp=/dev/null:sh:\
      :sd=/var/spool/lpd/nec:\
      :if=/usr/sbin/smbprint:
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

The local hplj4l works fine.

Here is /usr/sbin/smbprint with a pile of comments removed:
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
#!/bin/sh -x

logfile=/tmp/smb-print.log

(
        echo translate
        echo "print -"
        cat
) | smbclient "//alpha/NEC" -N -P >> $logfile
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Can anyone help me?

Thanks in advance
Ian
-- 
Ian Lynagh - ian@lynagh.demon.co.uk
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