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Printing pronlem with Potato



Hi

I am trying to print to a Netware prionter using Potato and
apsfilter. I had this running fine using the Debain supplied kernel
but I have now compiled my own 2.2.10 kernel and I can't print
anymore.

lpc reports the following when I try and start the printer:-

lpc> start all
ascii:
	printing enabled
lpc: connect: Connection refused
	couldn't start daemon
lp:
	printing enabled
lpc: connect: Connection refused
	couldn't start daemon
raw:
	printing enabled
lpc: connect: Connection refused
	couldn't start daemon
remote:
	printing enabled
lpc: connect: Connection refused
	couldn't start daemon
lpc> 

Printing anything also gives connection refused. My printcap looks
like this :-

ascii|lp1|ljet4-a4-ascii-mono|ljet4 ascii mono:\
	:lp=/dev/lp0:\
	:sd=/var/spool/lpd/ljet4-a4-ascii-mono:\
	:lf=/var/spool/lpd/ljet4-a4-ascii-mono/log:\
	:af=/var/spool/lpd/ljet4-a4-ascii-mono/acct:\
	:if=/var/lib/apsfilter/filter/aps-ljet4-a4-ascii-mono:\
	:mx#0:\
	:sh:
#
lp|lp2|ljet4-a4-auto-mono|ljet4 auto mono:\
	:lp=/dev/lp0:\
	:sd=/var/spool/lpd/ljet4-a4-auto-mono:\
	:lf=/var/spool/lpd/ljet4-a4-auto-mono/log:\
	:af=/var/spool/lpd/ljet4-a4-auto-mono/acct:\
	:if=/var/lib/apsfilter/filter/aps-ljet4-a4-auto-mono:\
	:mx#0:\
	:sh:
#
raw|lp3|ljet4-a4-raw|ljet4 auto raw:\
	:lp=/dev/lp0:\
	:sd=/var/spool/lpd/ljet4-raw:\
	:lf=/var/spool/lpd/ljet4-raw/log:\
	:af=/var/spool/lpd/ljet4-raw/acct:\
	:if=/var/lib/apsfilter/filter/aps-ljet4-a4-raw:\
	:mx#0:\
	:sh:

remote|remotep|LJ4 remote on ethernet:\
                :lp=/dev/null:sh:\
                :sd=/var/spool/lpd/remote:\
                :if=/usr/local/bin/nprint-script:

Finally lsmod reports the following:-

dasterdly:~# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
3c509                   5812   1 
parport_pc              5620   1  (autoclean)
lp                      4476   1 
parport                 6820   1  [parport_pc lp]
ipx                    12188   3 
vfat                   11196   0  (unused)
fat                    25120   0  [vfat]
ncpfs                  26000   0  (unused)
dasterdly:~# 

I can't see any boot errors in any log files or any other lpd errors
for that matter. This is driving me nut. What did I do wrong with my
kernel.

Pat

PS I can see all the Novell servers with slist.


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