Re: printing problems with CUPS on localhost server

On Thu, 04 Aug 2005 09:13:18 +0800, Graham North [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just set up my FreeBSD box to act as a printserver. I used CUPs and Samba following great directions found here: http://www.ajl-tech.com/index2.php?option=contentdo_pdf=1id=16 The printserver works very nicely

Re: printing problems with CUPS on localhost server

Hi Daniel: As indicated, I have tried to create links that will redirect to the new lpr placed in /usr/local/bin I did not redirect anything to /usr/local/sbin. My changes were: mv /usr/bin/lp /usr/bin/lp.bak mv /usr/bin/lpr /usr/bin/lpr.bak ln -s /usr/local/bin/lp /usr/bin/lp ln -s

Re: printing problems with CUPS on localhost server

Update - problem partially solved. I believe that a typo in smb.conf caused the grief, HOWEVER the formatting of text files from lp kind of sucks. Printing is hard against the Left Hand Side of page and loses about 2 characters. I looked and did not seem to have a2ps installed therefore

printing problems with CUPS on localhost server

I just set up my FreeBSD box to act as a printserver. I used CUPs and Samba following great directions found here: http://www.ajl-tech.com/index2.php?option=contentdo_pdf=1id=16 The printserver works very nicely printing jobs from my WinXP client to an hp4l printer attached to Freebsd,