Re: Using a novell shared printer from debian.
Hi
I just got printing to a printer on a Novell server working (after
giving up on it ages ago, hurray for small successes!).
Used LPRng as the spool daemon and magicfilter as the filter.
printcap entry:
<code>
lp|:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:\
:if=/etc/magicfilter/filter:\
:af=/var/spool/lpd/lp/acct:\
:lp=/dev/null:
</code>
/etc/magicfilter/filter contents (you may have to pick the best filter
for your printer, check the magicfilter docs):
<code>
#!/bin/sh
export THISDIR=$(dirname $0)
$THISDIR/psonly600-filter | $THISDIR/nwprint
</code>
nwprint script for sending output to novell printer:
<code>
#!/bin/sh
# Hacked together by I. Burger
# gpf@pikkedil.energie.sun.ac.za
# I borrowed this from smbprint, this gets some information from .config
config_file=$THISDIR/.config
eval `cat $config_file`
# The trailing '-' makes nprint read from stdin, it should work without the
# minus, but this is just to be sure. Use the top line to figure out errors,
# believe me, I had plenty, some of them really weird...
echo $server $user > /tmp/nw-error
(/usr/bin/nprint -S $server -U $user -P $password -q $queue -) 2>> /tmp/nw-error
#/usr/bin/nprint -S $server -U $user -P $password -q $queue -
# This line is extremely useful, see the README file.
# cat > /tmp/printout.ps
# chmod 644 /tmp/printout.ps
</code>
.config contains the definitions for the server, user, password and
queue. make sure this has appropriate permissions...
Hope that helps some, could have used it myself ages ago!
Cheers,
Joel
On 7/28/05, Clive Menzies <clive@clivemenzies.co.uk> wrote:
> On (28/07/05 09:54), Don Jackson wrote:
> > Clive Menzies wrote:
> > > On (27/07/05 22:26), Kent West wrote:
> >
> > >>I think printing is still pretty much a nightmare in Linux.
> > >>
> > >>What I do, is to install cups (aptitude install cupsys - I always have
> > >>to install printer drivers also, but I never can remember (the name of
> > >>the package is non-intuitive, something like foomatic-db-gimp-print -
> > >>why is "gimp" in there?!!!!).
> > >>
> > >>Then point your web browser to "http://localhost:631/admin"; and you
> > >>should be able to figure it out from there.
> > >>
> > >>(Why is there no man page for cups or cupsys?!!! Why is it so hard to
> > >>find the :631 reference?!! Why is the documentation wrong when it does
> > >>mention 631?!! (Recently you've had to add the /admin portion, which is
> > >>not referenced in /usr/share/doc/Readme.txt.gz Otherwise you get
> > >>nothing)?!! Okay, I'm finished with my rant, except to say that printing
> > >>still sucks on Linux!!)
> > >
> > >
> > > Wow! You really are p*ssed ;)
> > >
> > > Yep. I found trying to do anything IPP (via KDE) a nightmare and as for
> > > xprint .....
> > >
> > > The one document that seems to get me up and running painlessly (using
> > > cups) is this one:
> > > http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/Debian-and-Windows-Shared-Printing.html
> > >
> > > .... not given me a headache yet.
> > >
> > > In my exprerience, printing can be a pain in any operating system when
> > > it goes wrong. I recall hours of fun with Mac OS8/9.
> > >
> > > Regards
> > >
> > > Clive
> > >
> >
> > Hi Clive and Kent,
> >
> > There's an updated version of the mini-howto you referenced above found
> > at: http://excess.org/docs/linux_windows_printing.html
> >
> > I am painfully going through the same nightmare here and after calming
> > down a day or so from brain overload, I might have to ask for more
> > specific help in trying to just print from one Debian box to another.
>
> Thanks
>
> I've tended to google for this when the question comes up; I'll bookmark
> this one.
>
> Regards
>
> Clive
>
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