Remote printing fails

[Roland Jesse <jesse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Using apsfilter 6.1.1 from FreeBSD's ports collection, I somehow fail
to successfully print on a remote printer.

The printer is managed by a Sun Solaris 2.5 machine. It's
/etc/printers.conf says for the printer in question:

HP_5SIMX:\
        :bsdaddr=isgnw,Q_HP_5SIMX.printers,Solaris:\
        :description=HP5_SIMX.G-216:

My /etc/printcap therefore says:

HP_5SIMX|Printer1 auto:\
    :lp=:\
    :rm=141.44.23.1:\
    :rp=HP_5SIMX:\
    :if=/etc/apsfilter/basedir/bin/apsfilter:\
    :sd=/var/spool/lpd/HP_5SIMX:\
    :lf=/var/spool/lpd/HP_5SIMX/log:\
    :af=/var/spool/lpd/HP_5SIMX/acct:\
    :mx#0:\
    :sh:

141.44.23.1 is the IP address of the Solaris machine. The files
listed for my FreeBSD client machine do exist:

-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   54518 Jul 25 16:04 /etc/apsfilter/basedir/bin/apsfilter
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  daemon    512 Jul 25 16:44 /var/spool/lpd/HP_5SIMX
-rw-r--r--  1 root  daemon  0 Jul 25 16:44 /var/spool/lpd/HP_5SIMX/acct
-rw-r--r--  1 root  daemon  0 Jul 25 16:44 /var/spool/lpd/HP_5SIMX/log

"lpc status HP_5SIMX" on the FreeBSD client machine says:

HP_5SIMX:
        queuing is enabled
        printing is enabled
        1 entry in spool area
        waiting for 141.44.23.1 to come up

That stays on forever. The Solaris machine and its printer spooler
*are* up and running. Printing from other clients (lots of Windows
PCs, SGI boxes and a couple Suns) works very well.

Some hints on what I am missing here are much appreciated.

        Roland

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