Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Printing woes continue
From: Tony Grant (tg001@dial.oleane.com)
Date: Sat Oct 30 1999 - 10:24:37 EDT
Russell E Glaue wrote:
>
> If you are printing remotely from the Linux box to the printer over
> TCP/IP, then you have met a known problem.
> I still have not seen this documented in any Netatlk Tutorials yet though,
> so that is probably why you have not seen an answer.
No I am printing to the spool on the linux box which has a laserjet 5MP
connected to the parallel port.
> The LPR program is the problem in this case, and not netatalk. LPR expects
> a file to be spooled that has a name of a certain number of characters.
> Netatalk's PAPD sends variable length named files to the LPR spool as one
> would expect to be okay. However LPR does not expect this situation
> between it and PAPD to have ever occurred, so it just lets the PAPD print
> job sit in the spool and does nothing with it.
This setup was working almost perfectly (some underscored caracters not
printing on the baseline) for several months. I upgraded to 6.1 to get
better support for internet connection for our home LAN...
> > Red Hat 6.1 (upgrade over 6.0 clean install), netatalk-1.4b2+asun2.1.3
> > installed and compiled over 6.1 upgrade, lpr 0.46-1 fix.
> >
> > afpd works fine
> > server name is not visible in chooser
> > printer name neither
> > papd says it is working OK when I do the tests on the linux box
> > printing works on the linux box
> >
> > When I print to the spooler from the Mac (G3 400 OS 8.6) it accepts the
> > document then locks solid.
Thanks to all who have responded. I am going back home to continue
working on this my e-mail address there is Tony.Grant@dial.oleane.com
Cheers
Tony Grant
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