Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] PPD
From: Russell E Glaue (russ@cait.org)
Date: Fri Aug 27 1999 - 17:06:44 EDT
It might be because you did not put the PPD file in the appropriate
translation onto the Unix system. Remeber Mac and Unix use different end
line markers.
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Russell E Glaue, Technologies Engineer russ@cait.org
Center for the Application of Information Technologies
101 Horrabin Hall, 1 University Circle, Macomb, Illinois 61455
http://www.cait.org http://cait.wiu.edu
On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Christian Pomar wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have netatalk-1.4b2+asun2.1.3-4 running on a RH6 linux machine (I got
> it from Red Hat on a rpm file). It works fine and my lonely macintosh
> (iMac) mounts volumes OK and sees correctly the printer (which is an
> LJ1100 feeded by ghostscript). Well, it prints OK if I do not use a PPD
> file.
>
> When I specify a PPD in the /etc/atalk/papd.conf, when it gets to print,
> the Macintosh stays frozen and in the syslog file appears:
>
> Aug 21 00:41:04 localhost papd[2181]: child 2306 for "Impressora a
> Linux" from 65280.203
>
> and nothing happens.
>
> Depending on the Macintosh application trying to print, the results are
> different: Quark hangs completely the machine, Word gives a timeout. In
> the linux side, after some time, the "done" message appears in syslog.
>
> I have tried many things, but I never succeeded to print when specifying
> a ppd file.
>
> I have been looking around in the archive but I have found nothing. żAny
> suggestion about what is happening?
>
> Does anybody else print with a lj1100? what ppd do you use? can you
> always print correctly using GS?
>
> Thank you very much
>
> Christian Pomar
>
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