> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Aug 18 11:49:30 2000
> From: "Manuel Elgorriaga Kunze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: LPRng: problems with remote printing and temp files...
> Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 19:19:14 +0200
>
> Hello all,
> I'm trying to setup LPRng 3.6.23 on Linux 2.2.14 as the central print
> serving engine for a dozen of printers in our lan. Each of these printers is
> connected to the network through a dedicated printserver box or through
> their own network card. Endusers access the different Samba-2.0.7-mapped
> printers from their Windows 9x/NT applications through the native
> Win-drivers and from DOS through application-programmed native interfaces
> like PCL or just plain text with some control codes, and no banners are
> used; so these users just need the raw-access to the printers, without any
> filters . Sysadmins on the other hand use printers from the linux-servers,
> also from the linux lprng-server, and they do need some filtering, mainly
> for text files; I use apsfilter 5.4.2 with a2ps for this purpose, and it
> works fine. We are also interested in the accounting and logging facilities
> of lprng.
> I think all the system is close to be ready, but I still have some problems
> which I couldn't solve neither with the manual and howto's nor through
> searching the mailing-list archives. The problem is, that I continuously get
> short tempXXXXX (usually their content is just: "JetDirect lpd: no jobs
> queued on this port") files in my spool directory and some lpqXXXXX in /tmp,
> even after printing from windows has finished (the printing itself works
> fine); lpq is then continuosly checking the queues. Removing these files or
> restarting the lpd doen't help (!?). I think I've messed some think up when
> trying to work out mit /etc/printcap for remote printing, or something is
> wrong about my HP printserver or even with apsfilter, but I don't know where
> else wo look. I'm sure, this is a quite oftly asked problem and perhaps very
> obvious, but I wasn't able to solve it. So here go my apologies, my thanks
> for any hint, and the extract for a typical printcap entry for a Postscript
> HP LJ5000 on a remote HP printserver box.
It sounds like you have your Samba printing configuration
set up to use /tmp as the spool directory and it is getting full
and truncating the files. Modify the smb.conf or use SWAT to modify
the configuration so that the set the directory used by Samba to
somewhere where you have LOTS of space:
[printers]
path=/var/spool/samba
The second possibility is that psfilter is running out of space or is
having a conversion problem. You need to use (again!) a directory with
LOTS of space for this reason. I think that apsfilter uses GhostScript
for conversions - you will need to set the temporary directory for GhostScript
and for apsfilter to something with LOTS of space.
>
> # ...snip...
> bpz_lj5000|aps1-PS_1200dpi-a4-auto-default|Printer1 PS_1200dpi a4 auto
> default
> :force_localhost
> :sh
> bpz_lj5000|aps1-PS_1200dpi-a4-auto-default|Printer1 PS_1200dpi a4 auto
> default
> :server
> :cm=BPZ HP LJ5000 PS (auto)
> :lp=raw1@myprintserver
> :sd=/var/spool/lpd/printer1-PS_1200dpi-a4-auto-default
> :lf=/var/spool/lpd/printer1-PS_1200dpi-a4-auto-default/log
> :af=/var/spool/lpd/printer1-PS_1200dpi-a4-auto-default/acct
> :if=/usr/local/apsfilter/filter/aps1-PS_1200dpi-a4-auto-default
> :lpd_bounce
> :mx#0
> :sh
> #
> bpz_lj5000_raw|aps2-PS_1200dpi-a4-raw|Printer1 PS_1200dpi a4 raw
> :force_localhost
> :sh
> bpz_lj5000_raw|aps2-PS_1200dpi-a4-raw|Printer1 PS_1200dpi a4 raw
> :server
> :cm=BPZ HP LJ5000 PS (raw)
> :lp=raw1@myprintserver
> :sd=/var/spool/lpd/printer1-PS_1200dpi-a4-raw
> :lf=/var/spool/lpd/printer1-PS_1200dpi-a4-raw/log
> :af=/var/spool/lpd/printer1-PS_1200dpi-a4-raw/acct
> :if=/usr/local/apsfilter/filter/aps2-PS_1200dpi-a4-raw
> :mx#0
> :sh
> # ...snip...
>
> ---
> Manuel Elgorriaga Kunze, IT Department
> Swiss Library for the Blind and Visually Impaired
> CH - 8047 Zurich, Switzerland
> Phone: + 41 1 491 25 55, Fax: + 41 1 492 64 75
Patrick Powell Astart Technologies,
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Network and System San Diego, CA 92123
Consulting 858-874-6543 FAX 858-279-8424
LPRng - Print Spooler (http://www.astart.com)
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