| Andreas Klemm on Sun, 9 Sep 2001 12:30:29 +0200 (CEST) |
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| Re: Printing to IP printer |
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 08:57:07AM +0200, thomas.emde@scaleon.de wrote: > Hello, > > I am using apsfilter 6.1.1 and lprng 3.7.4. > I set up a printer with apsfilter called "local" like this: > [...] > Then I added the line "REMOTE_NAME=ip-printer" to > /etc/apsfilter/local/lpr.conf, You got this "hack" from the FAQ, right ? Well, you need it only if your line printer spooler doesn't support input filter to be executed when printing on network printers. Additonally you need to restart lpd, after configuring this... Did you do that ? I would suggest, you use apsfilters SETUP to configure a new printer. Configure this time a "network printer". Restart lpd and make sure, you have an /etc/hosts entry for your printer. The printer name you use in apsfilters SETUP should exactly match with the printer name in /etc/hosts. Perhaps try first to ping the printer with exactly that name. It depends on your DNS configuration if its o.k. to use the full qualified domain name of the printer or just the name of it. i.e.: "remoteprinter.my.domain" or simply "remoteprinter" > What I don't understand is why apsfilter is trying to connect > to "localhost" and not to the remote printer and why it > is looking for a spool queue for "ip-printer"?! One of the things why I still use Berkeley lpd over LPRng is, that I dislike the additional complexity of LPRng. Berkely lpd just works. I'd say if you don't need one of LPRng's additional features simply use Berkeley lpd. Its more than enough to get something printed. Additionally I dislike LPRngs handling of desplaying apsfilters debugging output if it ever comes to the point that you have to debug apsfilter itself. The prepending of LPRngs status messages (timestamps etc) makes debugging apsfilter not easier.. Try lpd if installing a true remote printer fails ... Andreas /// -- Andreas Klemm Apsfilter Homepage http://www.apsfilter.org Support over mailing-lists (only!) http://www.apsfilter.org/support Mailing-list archive http://www.apsfilter.org/Lists-Archives