Re: apsfilter doesn't work on server

[Christian Ullrich <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* Michael Loßin wrote on Wednesday, 2002-01-16:

> On 15-Jan-02 Christian Ullrich wrote:

> > 19. Now for the client. Using SuSE's YaST configuration tool,
> >     I configured a simple network printer:
> >       
> >       ascii|remote printer on ser1:\
> >         :sd=/var/spool/lpd/ascii:\
> >         :rm=ser1:\
> >         :rp=ascii:\
> >         :bk:sh:mx#0:
> >               
> > 20. "lpq -Pascii" on the client showed that the printer status was
> >     accessible.
> 
> Did it show the status of the queue on the client or on the
> server? (Both are called "ascii"...)

That was to say that the client could communicate with the server,
and the server didn't refuse the connection or whatever.
At least, I hope that lpq on the client asks the server for
its status and doesn't just show the local queue's state. That 
would be rather useless as well.

> Does LPRng need a ":filter=..." line in /etc/printcap instead
> of (just) ":if=..."? AFAIK the "if" filter is the default,
> but maybe adding ":filter=/etc/apsfilter/basedir/bin/apsfilter:\"
> helps.

I'll try that this evening and report back.

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