potato netatalk/lpr problem

[Ron Hale-Evans <rwhe@ludism.org>]

After upgrading to Debian 2.2 the day it became stable, I ceased being able
to print to my AppleTalk printer. Tonight I realised my AppleTalk module
had been deinstalled, so I reinstalled it, and atalkd seems to be running
fine, but I'm still having printing problems.

papstatus shows the computer is online, and I can actually print PostScript
files to it with pap -p, but printing to it with lpr sends an error message
to my mailbox:

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To: rwhe@ludism.org
Subject: lp printer job "test"
Reply-To: root@ludism.org
From: lp <lp@ludism.org>
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 22:02:06 -0700
Status:  O

Your printer job (test)
could not be printed

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Looking in the error log for the printer, I see many lines of the form "No
printer specified and ./.paprc not found.", but there's no timestamp or job
name on them. Printing fails even when I specify a printer name with lpr
-P, however.

My spool directory is /var/spool/lpd/lman, and I recreated it manually
tonight using the instructions at the LinuxWorld page
<http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-1999-04/lw-04-uptime_p.html>,
which is extremely helpful for AppleTalk printing problems. And my spool
directory does indeed contains a .paprc.

Here is my /etc/printcap:

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lp|lman:\
        :lp=/dev/null:\
        :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lman:\
        :sh:\
        :pl#63:pw#80:px#3150:py#2400:\
        :mx#0:\
        :sf:\
        :of=/usr/lib/atalk/filters/ofpap:\
        :if=/usr/lib/atalk/filters/ifpap:\
        :af=/var/log/lp-acct:\
        :lf=/var/log/lp-errs:

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Here is my papd.conf. I have tried both the commented-out and
uncommented-out code (I found the latter when I searched the Debian User
archives for "netatalk".)

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#lman:\
#:pr=lp:op=root:\
#:pd=/usr/local/print/BLP_Elite.PPD:

lman:\
:pr=|/usr/bin/lpr -Plp:\
:pd=/usr/local/print/BLP_Elite.PPD:

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Any ideas? Your help is greatly appreciated. This list always comes through
for me.

Ron H-E
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