John Perkins wrote: > > > we have an old LaserWriter 12/640 (Postscript - Lan) printer and we're using ihfp >to communicate with the raw port of the printer. > > The printing is ok, but we coulnd't get the pagecount (always null); as we are >accounting every job to charge to the owner the pages > > printed, this is an important feature. > > > > Anyone has resolved this problem ? > > We had a number of LW 12/640's here. NONE of them had "raw port" capabilities. > > I got on the phone with Apple tech support one day asking about this (and for > our 16/600's we had at the time). Surprisingly, it was someone who knew what > I was talking about and who in the engineering office would know the answer. > After being on hold for a while, I was told the engineer was nearly in tears > because he had wanted to put raw port capabilities on this printer. Marketing > told him no one wanted it and it should be disabled before the product was > shipped. > > > .... printcap is following ... > > > > --snip-- > > ric3 > > :server > > :cm=Apple LaserWriter 12/640 > > :filter=/opt/LPRng/libexec/filters/ifhp > > :ifhp=model=apple,status=ps,sync=ps,pagecount=ps,waitend=ps > > :lp=raw@laserdip > > :mx=0 > > :prefix_z=600,a4,portrait,simplex > > :ps=status > > :sd=/var/spool/lpd/%P > > :sh > > --snip-- > > You need :lp=laserdip%rawport; what you have done is pass jobs via LPD to the > internal LPD on the printer. You will never get printer status or accounting > information back this way. > > The >ONLY< way I got this to work with Apple printers was to communicate with > them via Appletalk (we used CAP; you could probably use Netatalk if you want). > > I tried using a Linksys printserver with the 12/640. The printer has a flaky > parallel port implementation, where it will go from online/ready to offline > for no apparent reason. An Epson Stylus inkjet on the same Linksys box had no > trouble at all. > Thanks for these informations, we'll check your suggest.
> > We want that the owner of a job can delete the job from every machine, is this the >way? > > > > --snip-- > > ....omissis > > # allow same user on every host to remove a job > > ACCEPT SERVICE=M SAMEUSER > > # allow root on server to remove a job > > ACCEPT SERVICE=M SERVER REMOTEUSER=root > > REJECT SERVICE=M > > > > DEFAULT ACCEPT > > --snip-- > > > > Now if I try to delete a job from an host (not as root) I receive a "no >permission" .... :-( > > We use the following: > > ACCEPT SERVICE=M SAMEUSER > ACCEPT SERVICE=M REMOTEUSER=root > > There were some problems with earlier LPRng releases in getting SAMEUSER and > REMOTEUSER directives correct. We run LPRng-3.7.4 here now, which does not > have those bugs. If you're trying to use 3.5* or maybe 3.6* releases, you > should download a newer copy. > Thanks for your reply, but I'm using 3.8.9-1 on solaris yet... Could be a missing line as ACCEPT SERVICE=M SERVER SAMEUSER ?? -- Dott. Sergio Rabellino Technical Staff Department of Computer Science University of Torino (Italy) Member of the Internet Society http://www.di.unito.it/~rabser Tel. +39-0116706701 Fax. +39-011751603 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
