The short answer is that my lprng printing on Debian Woody is now
squarking that all the printer queues are non-existant, e.g no
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
And yes it squarks about running checkpc -f, which in turns squarks
about .banner on ttyS0 (modem-efax), but that isn't the problem.
here is that message
damselfly:/etc# lpr -Php5ps /etc/hosts
Status Information:
sending job '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
connecting to 'localhost', attempt 1
connected to 'localhost'
requesting printer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
job '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' transfer to [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed
error 'NONZERO RFC1179 ERROR CODE FROM SERVER' with ack
'ACK_FAIL'
sending str '^Bhp5ps' to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
error msg: 'spool queue for 'hp5ps' does not exist on server
damselfly.woa.com.au'
error msg: ' non-existent printer or you need to run 'checkpc
-f''
damselfly:/etc#
What changed?
Well, I had to reinstall Samba (for the MS clients) two days ago,
because 4 days ago I decided that I didn't need exim and removed it and
it took out samba at the same time. Perhaps someone can explain why
these are linked.
Anyway, I "apt-get install samba" and now samba works, but this is the
first time I've tried printing.
The only other change is that about 4-5 days ago I was chasing fax
software (efax) and up installing mgetty-fax, but i have printed since
then.
Looking for a bit of clue that might save me from have to inspect the
entire entrails of Debian Woody printing system - aka how to fix the
problem (and no I don't want cups thanks).
No useful result from google either (yet)
The beain says this has occurred before but it hasn't remembered the
problem atm {;-).
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