Re: printing to a windows printer
sorry, i am pretty new in linux....i understand the lock part (i think), but
how would someone create a trash bin dedicated to lpd?
should I just comment the /dev/null out then?
On Mon, 02 Oct 2000, Philipp Lehman wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, David Erdman <david@erdius.net> wrote:
> >i have done this in suse, and redhat but am thus far unsuccessful.
> >I need to print to an HP722C (win printer) that is hooked up to windows 98
> > on an internal lan. looking at logs
> >
> >Oct 1 19:31:11 ganymede pnm2ppa[1192]: No pages printed!
> >Oct 1 19:31:12 ganymede lpd[1195]: cannot execv
> >/var/lib/apsfilter/bin/ppa720-a4-auto-mono-300
> >Oct 1 19:31:12 ganymede lpd[1194]: lp: job could not be printed
> >(cfA012ganymede)
> >Oct 1 19:31:24 ganymede lpd[1197]: cannot execv
> >/var/lib/apsfilter/bin/ppa720-a4-auto-mono-300
> >Oct 1 19:31:24 ganymede lpd[1196]: lp: job could not be printed
> >(cfA010ganymede)
> >Oct 1 19:52:57 ganymede lpd[1347]: cannot execv
> >/var/lib/apsfilter/bin/ppa720-a4-auto-mono-300
> >Oct 1 19:52:57 ganymede lpd[1346]: lp: job could not be printed
> >(cfA013ganymede)
>
> Your input filter script seems to be causing problems, printcap
> looks ok to me.
>
> >I configured with both printtool, and magicfilter.
> >i have also installed pn2pm (or whatever the hell it is)
> >my printcap is as follows
> >##PRINTTOOL3## SMB ppa 600x600 letter {} {HP DeskJet 720} ppa720b1 {}
> >lp:\
> >
> > :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
> > :mx#0:\
> > :sh:\
> > :if=/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter:\
> > :af=/var/spool/lpd/lp/acct:\
> > :lp=/dev/null:
>
> ^^^^^^^^^
>
> Not recommended. AFAIK lpd will *lock* /dev/null. You'd better
> create a trash bin dedicated to lpd, eg /dev/lpnull or whatever.
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