> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Jul 13 18:34:10 2000
> Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 20:34:18 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Lars Kellogg-Stedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: LPRng: Space Aliens Ate My Pring Job: Part I
>
> 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).
Actually, they do. However, there is a way to use LPRng to cause a DOS
attack on the host, fill up the syslog file, etc., so incoming job information is not
logged unless you ask for it.
You can use:
lpc debug lexmark lpr
to turn on debugging of incoming jobs. This will cause the lpd server
to use the log file in the lexmakr queue directory file for trace and
error messages.
>
> 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
>
> --
> Lars Kellogg-Stedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --> http://www.larsshack.org/
Try the latest version of LPRng, which should be a little more Apple proof.
Also, try the debugging like I suggested above.
Patrick Powell
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