Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] PPD files on server
From: Albert Max Lai (amlai@columbia.edu)
Date: Sun Mar 28 1999 - 17:51:40 EST
On Sat, 27 Mar 1999, Jeremy J. Reichman wrote:
Of course, since this is the netatalk mailing list, we'll all be printing
to our printers using papd instead of lpd ;-), but there is a bug in the
RedHat lpd. Here's what the bug is: If you don't have a username on the
machine running lpd and the client, the lpd spool will just drop the job
and the job will never get to the printer. (The username from a MacOS
client is the owner name.) The reason this is a bug is because it ignores
the tag to say whether or not to do this (which should be off by default
anyways.) Here's a link to the patch that I found:
<http://www.iet.unipi.it/~romano/linux/tricks.html>
Oh and BTW, I got a message from them stating that it would be fixed in a
future revision of the lpr package.
> Note: Since I originally wrote this, I have discovered some issues with
> some printers and some types of queues. The one that has affected me
> personally is printing to an HP LaserJet 5SiNX through a queue served by
> VMS. There, I get an extra page with an error message on it, although
> documents otherwise print fine (assuming that extra page doesn't get
> bundled in with the collating and duplexing I do). As far as we have
> been able to track down, it's an emulation switching issue. It doesn't
> happen with other OSes and their queues or most other printers. But it's
> an example of the craziness that can happen with LPR that you probably
> wouldn't see over AppleTalk.
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