> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Aug 7 06:04:27 2002
> Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 15:02:02 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Rainer Hantsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Patrick Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Mysterious printing troubles...
>
> Hello, Patrick!
>
> Excuse me that I possibly ask such a stupid question, but I had biggest
> troubles with a SuSE 8.0 based server at a customer. Finally, I trew out
> 'lprng' and replaced it by 'lprold' from an older SuSE 7.3 distribution, and
> everything was fine then, but I would like to know the reason for that.
> Maybe, you know the answer...
>
>
> What I did:
> -----------
> I istalled SuSE Linux 8.0, which is shipped now with 'lprng' as default
> printer service. Because the server is running a very spread office, I
> installed printer servers which work absolutely fine with lprold.
> (I use ALLNET ALL0700 printer servers http://www.allnet.de. I can connect them
> in the usual unix manner: host/ip-of-host and queue name)
>
> Well, because the used printers are very different, I also installed
> Turboprint (http://www.turboprint.de), a great printer filter which also
> supports many inkjet printers. It definitely works with lpr/lprng/cups in
> older SuSE distributions (before 8.0). It also has a very user friendly GUI
> for creating and administrating printers. (I am sure, you know it!)
>
> When I installed the printers, I used 'tpsetup' to create the printing
> queues. I entered everything 100% correctly: the IP and the queue name. I also
> verified the result in /etc/printcap. But i was not able to print. The data
> were queued, but never sent to the remote printer server! It permanently
> monitored me (through telnet) that is is idle...
>
> Finally I threw out 'lprng' and installed an older 'lprold.rpm' from SuSE
> Linux 7.3. And this immediately solved the problem.
>
>
> Question: What is wrong? Is something wrong in SuSE 8.0? Is lprng not able to
> talk to ALL0700 printer servers? Is TurboPrint incompatible to this
> version or lprng?
>
> Please, leave me a note.
>
> mfg
>
> Ing. Rainer Hantsch
>
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Hmmm... I have used this on RedHat with no problems... Lets see.
<switch to VMWARE RedHat>
<download and install TurboPrint...>
<start xtpsetup and create a printer>
<print the test page - works fine>
<print 'hello.txt' file - works fine>
Printer: lp@h112 'HP_LaserJet4'
Queue: no printable jobs in queue
Server: no server active
Status: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: job 'root@h112+831' printed at 12:26:15.487
Status: job 'root@h112+831' saved at 12:26:15.487
Status: waiting for subserver to exit at 12:27:52.917
Status: subserver pid 21879 starting at 12:27:52.918
Status: opening device '/dev/null' at 12:27:52.918
Status: printing job 'root@h112+877' at 12:27:52.918
Status: processing 'dfA877h112.private', size 3, format 'f', IF filter 'tpfilter' at
12:27:52.918
Status: IF filter 'tpfilter' filter msg - '[stdin (plain): 1 page on 1 sheet]'
at 12:27:53.166
Status: IF filter 'tpfilter' filter msg - '[Total: 1 page on 1 sheet] sent to the
standard output' at 12:27:53.217
Status: IF filter 'tpfilter' filter finished at 12:27:53.968
Status: printing finished at 12:27:53.968
Status: finished 'root@h112+877', status 'JSUCC' at 12:27:53.968
Status: subserver pid 21879 exit status 'JSUCC' at 12:27:53.969
Status: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: job 'root@h112+877' printed at 12:27:53.969
Status: job 'root@h112+877' saved at 12:27:53.969
Status: job 'root@h112+831' removed at 12:27:55.007
Rank Owner/ID Class Job Files Size Time
done root@h112+877 A 877 (STDIN) 3 12:27:52
Printer: tp0raw is [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Printer: lp@h110
Queue: no printable jobs in queue
Server: no server active
Status: IF filter 'ifhp' filter finished at 12:29:45.425
Status: printing finished at 12:29:45.425
Status: accounting at end at 12:29:45.442
Status: finished 'lp@h112+902', status 'JSUCC' at 12:29:45.442
Status: subserver pid 81527 exit status 'JSUCC' at 12:29:45.443
Status: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: job 'lp@h112+902' printed at 12:29:45.444
Status: job 'lp@h112+902' saved at 12:29:45.444
Status: job 'lp@h112+902' removed at 12:30:22.476
Filter_status: 51 percent done at 12:29:29.978
Filter_status: 77 percent done at 12:29:30.431
Filter_status: sent job file at 12:29:30.679
Filter_status: getting end using 'pjl job/eoj' at 12:29:30.680
Filter_status: end of job detected at 12:29:43.636
Filter_status: pagecounter 4359 after 1 attempts at 12:29:45.424
Filter_status: pagecounter 4359, pages 1 at 12:29:45.424
Filter_status: done at 12:29:45.425
Rank Owner/ID Class Job Files Size Time
done papowell@h110+215 A 215 a 6019 13:59:21
so ... I don't know why it is not working... Never had problems with this before.
By the way, any resemblance between printerconfig, lprngtool, printtool,
TurboPrints lpsetup, and several others is just coincidental... right?
Patrick ("Copy? Me? Of COURSE I copy things...
But only the good stuff...:-)") Powell
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