I had *lots* of problems with this, what eventually worked
best for me was to install lprng package and go the
lprng webpage. There it gives instructions and commands to
set the proper permissions. After that, everything works
well.
HTH
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi Nelson,
> do you mean that now your apsfilter is up and running ( in other words is
> yours a suggestion to fix the problem) or did you abandon apsfilter?
>
> Vittorio
> >> ---------- Forwarded Message ----------
> >> Subject: Re: Problems with printing
> >> Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 09:56:29 -0400
> >> From: Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> >>
> >>
> >> Subject: Re: Problems with printing
> >> Date: Wed, May 02, 2001 at 06:59:34AM -0000
> >>
> >> In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>
> >> Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> >> > Well, Wayne, I don't really think a Debian potato distribution fails
> >in a
> >> > strategic and basic piece of software such as apsfilter. I rather
> >think
> >> > there's something wrong in my configuration relating to
> >authorizations but
> >> > I don't know where and what to manipulate. Perhaps I missed to
> >define some
> >> > special group, or whatever else..... What strikes me is that the
> >test which
> >> > apsfilterconfig suggests works great, while any following attempt to
> >print
> >> > dies unexpectedly. Any suggestion to fix it before eliminating
> >apsfilter?
> >> > Vittorio
> >
> >I just set up apsfilter last night, and I had the same problem--the test
> >page
> >printed fine, and I could cat stuff directly, but everything else
> >failed. It turns out that the permissions of the printer device in /dev
> >were set wrong-- read-only, no write for the lp group, which obviously
> >doesn't make much sense for a printer using lprng for spooling.
> >
> >-Nelson
>
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