Take a look at the output of lpq -Ptest -l or -ll (add more until you see something useful, or do -L -- for a more verbose output) and see what you discover. There may be a badly placed CR or something in the command when sent through Samba, or the path may not be what you expect.
---- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | | Ryan Novosielski - Jr. UNIX Systems Admin |$&| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| | [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent. | IST/ACS - New Jersey Medical School - C630 On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Joel Hammer wrote: > This may be a second post of this problem, but I didn't get a single reply > to my first post so maybe it didn't get posted for some reason. > > I am trying to print to a samba shared printer with linux, but am having a > print filter problem. I have set up a queue "test2" to write to the > share "test." > > The printer "test" works fine locally with lpr -Ptest filetoprint and works fine >with the > command below ON THE COMMAND LINE: > > cat FileToPrint | enscript -Z -p - | smbclient //hammer2/test -N "-c print - " > > However, the command in a print filter: > > enscript -Z -p - | smbclient //hammer2/test -N "-c print - " > > fails with a JABORT message in the status file when run by lpd. > > Removing the smbclient command allows the filter to function normally. > > This filter script works when called from the command line: > > cat FileToPrint | /var/spool/lpd/test2/filter. > > Any insight appreciated. > Joel > > > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > YOU MUST BE A LIST MEMBER IN ORDER TO POST TO THE LPRNG MAILING LIST > The address you post from MUST be your subscription address > > If you need help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or lprng-requests > or lprng-digest-requests) with the word 'help' in the body. For the impatient, > to subscribe to a list with name LIST, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with: | example: > subscribe LIST <mailaddr> | subscribe lprng-digest [EMAIL PROTECTED] > unsubscribe LIST <mailaddr> | unsubscribe lprng [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > If you have major problems, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word > LPRNGLIST in the SUBJECT line. > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- YOU MUST BE A LIST MEMBER IN ORDER TO POST TO THE LPRNG MAILING LIST The address you post from MUST be your subscription address If you need help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or lprng-requests or lprng-digest-requests) with the word 'help' in the body. For the impatient, to subscribe to a list with name LIST, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with: | example: subscribe LIST <mailaddr> | subscribe lprng-digest [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe LIST <mailaddr> | unsubscribe lprng [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have major problems, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word LPRNGLIST in the SUBJECT line. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
