VArious people, including me, have reported difficulty printing to
printers on other boxes in networks using Festen and/or Venus.
I have an UGLY solution for now.
In /var/spool/lpd/lp/filter
The lines
if [ "$PRINTER_TYPE" = "SMB" ]; then
bestpath="$bestpath | ${FPIDIR}/smbprint ${SPOOLDIR}/acct"
change to
if [ "$PRINTER_TYPE" = "SMB" ]; then
bestpath="$bestpath | /usr/bin/smbprint ${SPOOLDIR}/acct"
AND
change /var/spool/lpd/lp/.config
to read
server=SERVERNAME # name your server here For example mine is a
windows box called testrig so I
# enter server=TESTRIG
service=PRINTERNAMEONSERVER # here mine is called HPWIN because it is
a stupid winprinter
password='whatever_password_is_assigned' # For mine, anything will
work since I haven't set one
user='username' #optional
logfile=/tmp/errorlog_for_printer_hpwin
#logfile=/dev/null #works too
I get output which I did not have before. Plain ASCII seems to go to
limbo on the printer test, but all else seems to print OK
Civileme
ANALYSIS: The FPIDIR variable appears to point to a path where smbprint
is a directory rather than a filter.
