by I am trying to print from Linux (latest slackware) to a Netware
printer, or should I say a print queue on a Netware server.
I followed exactly the same as the setup in "Printing Howto", below
is what I
setup for the printer:
1) In /etc/printcap, a printer section:
lp|remote:lp=/dev/null:sd=/var/spool/lpd:if=/var/spool/lpd/nprint-script:sh
(This is the only printer I can connected to).
2)For /var/spool/lpd/nprint-script:
#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/nprint -S NovellServer -U username -P password -q PrintQueue -
3)For all files and directories in /var/spool/lpd, set permission
(chmod) as 775
also did this for lpd lpr lpq, etc in /usr/sbin. I also set the owner of
all directories
and files above as root.daemon
4) I have ncpfs package installed, which inclued nprint, nsend, slist,
ncpmount,
ncpumount command. I can successfully mount a Novell volumn and nprint a
text file to the Novell print queue. For the input filter
/var/spool/lpd/nprint-script, I tried successfully the following
command:
$ cat README | /var/spool/lpd/nprint-script
and the README was printed ok.
The problem is when I started lpd and did a lpr, I got the error
message:
/usr/bin/nprint: Server Unknown when initializing connection
and the error message kept coming as long as the job is spooled. I have
no problem to list the job by lpq or remove it by lprm.
I think the input filter was started because the error is about nprint,
which is
in the script, but I just don't understand why it can not find the
server. Is it
possible that somehow the arguments for nprint are lost? The script
seems
working because I can "cat README|/var/spool/lpd/nprint-script"
and the print works.
The spooled files are in /var/spool/lpd and looks ok.
Any suggestion is appreciated.