Re: Remote Printing
On Mon, 6 Mar 2000 mahdi@sa.ibm.com wrote:
mahdi> Have you rebooted after making the setting?
Some two or three times I have rebooted the machine. That is the
normal course. It will not be running continuously.
mahdi> Did you try redirection?
mahdi> # cat /etc/fstab > /dev/laser
I do not have any device by name 'laser' under /dev. As user, I get
permission denied. As root, it creates a file by that name.
mahdi> Whats the output of ps -ef on the remote machine?
mahdi> are both the queue daemon and the lp daemon in the output?
SU:/home/mas# ps ef
PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
152 3 S 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty3 HOME=/ TERM=linux BOOT_IMAGE=deb BOOT
153 4 S 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty4 HOME=/ TERM=linux BOOT_IMAGE=deb BOOT
154 5 S 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty5 HOME=/ TERM=linux BOOT_IMAGE=deb BOOT
155 6 S 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty6 HOME=/ TERM=linux BOOT_IMAGE=deb BOOT
201 2 S 0:00 bash HZ=100 HOSTNAME=haralu PS1=\u@\h:\w$ teXsan=/home/mas/
204 2 R 0:00 \_ ps ef HZ=100 HOSTNAME=haralu LS_OPTIONS=--color=auto -CF
Same on both the machines. I cannot find any daemons here.
mahdi>
mahdi> It is worth trying the same thing from the remote printer itself......
mahdi> setting its local queue as a remote queue, then try printing ........
mahdi> or better yet if you have a third Linux machine, so you can isolate the
mahdi> source of the problem.
Will try them. I notice another strange thing. From the machine haralu I tried
lpr -Plj test.ps, where lj is the laser printer on another machine. I do
not get any output on the other machine. But, the local dot matrix starts
printing the ps file (literal, not interpreted). i cannot find this job using
lpq. I cd'ed to /var/spool/lpd. Did a ls -laR. Nothing anywhere. Where is
the print job coming from?
Thanks,
sridhar
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