Re: [TCLUG:8272] JetDirect revisited

[Bob Tanner <tanner@real-time.com>]

Quoting Clayton T. Fandre (cfandre@maddog.mn-linux.org):
> > I tried to make all the computers print to a printer server which prints to
> > the printer, but I do not think Linux likes a remote printer printing to a
> > remote printer (PC1->print->PC->print->Printer).
> 
> Actually it works pretty well. We have a few servers that spool to our
> central server. They are HP-UX machines, but it shouldn't matter if
> they're HP, Solaris, or Linux. I even tried to spool jobs from our NT
> print server to our HP-UX print server. Worked great.

This is what I get when I do a PC->print server->printer.

Sep 13 21:32:59 PC1 lpd[27111]: PC1 requests printjob lp 
Sep 13 21:32:59 printserver lpd[26227]: PC1 requests recvjob laserjet
Sep 13 21:32:59 printserver lpd[26227]: Can't create temp cfp file 
Sep 13 21:33:00 printserver last message repeated 1011 times
Sep 13 21:33:00 printserver lpd[26227]: laserjet: can't scan /var/spool/lpd/lp

# ls -l /var/spool/lpd/  
total 12
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     lp           4096 Sep 13 21:32 laserjet
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     lp           4096 Sep 13 21:33 lp
-rw-r--r--   1 root     lp              6 Sep 13 21:30 lpd.lock

# ls -l /var/spool/lpd/lp
total 32
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root         9443 Sep 13 19:18 filter
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root          192 Sep 13 19:18 general.cfg
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root           41 Sep 13 21:33 lock
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root          347 Sep 13 19:18 postscript.cfg
-rw-rw-r--   1 root     root           41 Sep 13 21:32 status
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root          146 Sep 13 19:18 textonly.cfg


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