Re: Printing--what am I missing?

[Stephan Kulka <e9626471@student.tuwien.ac.at>]

> On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 10:23:11PM +0200, Vee-Eye wrote:
> > > hawk3@hurricane:~/test$ lpr test.ps 
> > > lpr: connect: No such file or directory
> > > jobs queued, but cannot start daemon.
> >                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> Oddly, according to "ps ax | grep lpd" I already had lpd running.
> 
> I can at least use the verbose option now though.  The relevant output I
> receive is this:
> 
> sending job 'hawk3@hurricane+234' to lp@localhost
> connecting to 'localhost', attempt 1
> connected to 'localhost'
> requesting printer lp@localhost
> sending control file 'cfA234hurricane' to lp@localhost
> completed sending 'cfA234hurricane' to lp@localhost
> sending data file 'dfA234hurricane' to lp@localhost
> completed sending 'dfA234hurricane' to lp@localhost
> done job 'hawk3@hurricane+234' transfer to lp@localhost
> 
> That would seem to imply that everything worked fine, but my actual
> printer did nothing....
> 
> -- 
Hello
I have the same problem, as you describe it. AFAIK the printer works just
fine under Win.

Stephan