Re: Network printing dissapears in RH 7.1....

[Bob McClure Jr <robertmcclure earthlink net>]

Yes, it appears there have been some changes with the switch to
LPRNG.  After upgrading to 7.1 my postscript printing was no longer
working right.  I had to bring up "printtool" and redefine my
printer.  Apparently, the underlying guts of LPR don't work on LPRNG.
You may even have to delete the printer and start from scratch.  Two
more things: don't forget to save (under the File pulldown) and
restart lpd before testing.  (Guess how I know that? :-)

On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 10:19:13PM -0500, Ronald W. Heiby wrote:
> I don't know if I ran into the same problem as John, and I notice he
> didn't get an on-list answer to his problem. So, here goes.
> 
> My symptoms seem to be the same as John's. What I found is that there
> is a difference of opinion as to the name of the printer's config
> file. Inside /usr/share/printconf/smbprint, the config name was
> something like "smb.cfg", but the config file that actually was living
> in the spool area was named "account". Changing the config file name
> inside the smbprint script to "account", to match reality allowed me
> to print to a printer owned by a nearby Win98 system. It was fortunate
> that the comments within smbprint told me what the config file
> contained, as I was then able to poke around looking for a file with
> contents that looked like what the comments said.
> 
> Hope this helps!
> 
> Ron.
> 
> Sunday, June 03, 2001, 8:55:02 PM, John wrote:
> > Now this is strange.  I recently upgraded my RH system to 7.1 and now
> > Samba network printing has stopped.  I go through WinProxy on a Dell
> > Windows machine but that has always worked.  The Linux machine gets its IP
> > number from the WinProxy machine with DHCP.
> 
> > I've verified that everything is fine with printtool and the printer type
> > (SMB Windows), and the printer works from the WinProxy machine, but
> > printouts never make it to the printer.  They are apparently removed from
> > the queue after 3 retries.
> 
> > Any ideas on how to fix this or pin down the problem?  It appears to be
> > some kind of connectivity issue, but nothing has changed since the last it
> > worked (what is required to get to external printers?).

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