My fiance and I recently purchased a printer for our house, and I'm using
a Linux box running LPRng as a print spooler. Getting basic printing
under Linux to go worked like a charm.
Tragically, getting printing from my fiance's Macintosh to work took a
little bit longer. I'm using LPR printing on the Macintosh, and it was
obviously connecting to the Linux spooler -- but nothing was coming out.
What was more puzzling was that no errors were being logged anywhere --
I figured *something* would show up on the syslog LPR facility, but no
luck...nor did anything show up in the lpd log (specified with the -L flag
to lpd).
I finally found the problem when running lpd with the flags:
lpd -D network=10 -F
Which produced the following error when the print job was submitted:
2000-07-12-22:03:44.034 files [2232] RECV lexmark: Link_send: str '^Cmissing data
file 'dfA997Generic_Persons_Name_Comp'
(which was immediately followed by:
2000-07-12-22:03:44.035 files [2232] RECV lexmark: Link_send: final status NO ERROR
which seems counterintuitive...but I digress).
The problem here is that my fiance's computer is named, as is the default,
after her full name entered during system configuration. For the purpose
of illustration, assume her name is "Generic Persons Name". Her computer
name, then, would be "Generic Persons Names Computer". Something,
somewhere, is unhappy with this long name, which has obviously been
truncated in the above output.
I changed the network identity of the computer (it's now "foo"), and now
everything is working just fine.
Is this an LPRng bug? Or something else?
-- Lars
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Lars Kellogg-Stedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --> http://www.larsshack.org/
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