HI,
I've had less than stellar success trying to set up printers in Mandrake
7.1. Maybe someone has some ideas for me:
- First off, is it a good idea to use printtool to configure a printer? If
not, that may be the source of my problem.
- I added a SMB printer and I eventually had to go deep into the filter
scripts to find out that the filter scripts expected SAMBA 1.x installed.
I had to manually fix the call to smbprint filter to remove the
-E ${hostip:+-I} option to the smbprint command. It took me some time to
figure this one out.
- I now need to add another queue to a network printer. The printer has an
IP address and you're supposed to be able to print to it directly. Doesn't
seem to work for me and I'm not sure qhy yet. I'm hoping someone can help.
What happens is that when I print, I get no errors. But when I do an lpq,
I get:
myhost: no space on remote; waiting for queue to drain
Rank Owner Job Files Total Size
0 bytes
No entries
I've no idea what this means. I tried lpr -s to keep the file spooled on my
machine, but the job just stays there and nothing happens. Eventually, lpq
starts returning:
myhost: : Warning: no daemon present
Rank Owner Job Files Total Size
0 bytes
No entries
As I said before, I used printtool to add the printer because it didn't look
like Mandrake's printer setup tool supported adding a network printer (it's
stand alone and isn't connected to a print server).
I'm thinking it's a Mandrake problem because someone else here has a Red Hat
6.2 installation and he can print correctly, using printtool to set up his
prointer.
Can anyone help?
L
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