RE: Printing to a Win XP LPD Server from FreeBSD 5.4
Why are you wasting your time when you can buy USB or parallel port hardware print servers so cheap and print to the print server from both XP and BSD. The electricity you save by not having to turn on the XP system when you want to print should be more than enough to pay for the server in a year. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of aksis Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 5:24 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Printing to a Win XP LPD Server from FreeBSD 5.4 Hi, I am having a problem printing to a WinXP (home edition) LPD Server. The command: lptest | lpr -P lp-test print's to the printer successfuly. lpr -P lp test.ps doesn't print anything, but it is sending to the server (see below). I have tried cups. I have the exact ppd file (ML-1740spl2.ppd) for the samsung ML-1740 printer, and on the web admin page it shows the printer is idle and accepting jobs, the jobs get sent, and it even sounds like its getting ready to print.. yet nothing gets printed. :-( Also kprint (the goal of the whole thing) won't print anything, not even using the working 'lp-test' printcap entry. Nor do any of the test printer pages get printed, though they are getting spooled on the XP server. I spent 20+ hours yesterday trying to get this working, but am in need of some guidance on this. Is anyone successfuly printing to a XP LPD server? No I can't hang the printer off the freebsd box. I wish Here is the system info (if more is need let me know): FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p7 #1: Fri Sep 16 21:17:44 MST 2005 /etc/printcap ## # APS1_BEGIN:printer1 # - don't delete start label for apsfilter printer1 # - no other printer defines between BEGIN and END LABEL lp|PSgs;r=600x600;q=high;c=gray;p=letter;m=auto:\ :lp=:\ :rm=10.0.0.80:\ :rp=printer:\ :if=/usr/local/etc/apsfilter/basedir/bin/apsfilter:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\ :lf=/var/spool/lpd/lp/log:\ :af=/var/spool/lpd/lp/acct:\ :mx#0:\ :sh: # APS1_END - don't delete this # working entry lp-test:\ :sh:\ :rm=10.0.0.80:\ :rp=printer:\ :sd=/var/spool/output/10.0.0.80:\ :lf=/var/log/lpd-errs: ### command output [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Desktop]:$ lpr test.ps [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Desktop]:$ lpq vaio.idea-anvil.net: sending to 10.0.0.80 Rank Owner Job Files Total Size 1staksis 15 test.ps 57293 bytes Windows XP LPD Server Printer \\10.0.0.80\printer Owner Status Jobname Job-IdSize Pages Priority [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Desktop]:$ lpq Windows XP LPD Server Printer \\10.0.0.80\printer Owner Status Jobname Job-IdSize Pages Priority aksis (10.0 Printing test.ps 45 2663885 0 1 # end # But nothing gets printed. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.18/86 - Release Date: 8/31/2005 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Printing to a Win XP LPD Server from FreeBSD 5.4
On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, aksis wrote: Hi, I am having a problem printing to a WinXP (home edition) LPD Server. The command: lptest | lpr -P lp-test print's to the printer successfuly. According to your printcap file, this is an unfiltered queue. lpr -P lp test.ps doesn't print anything, but it is sending to the server (see below). And lp is filtered through apsfilter. This may result in your FreeBSD system translating the input file into whatever the printer expects, then sending it to the Windows system, which is also trying to translate it to what the printer expects. I have little experience with using XP as an lpd server, but it's my impression that it will filter all input through whatever driver is defined for that printer. If you want to do the translation on the FreeBSD system, use apsfilter and set the driver on the XP system to... whatever XP calls the raw, untranslated, leave it alone driver. Or send the untranslated output from the FreeBSD system and let XP translate it through the driver. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
