John Gelm on Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:51:23 +0200 (CEST)(envelope-from owner-apsfilter-help@apsfilter.org)


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Re: Problem:Slackware 8.1 printing to Windows shared printer 


Problem solved!, with a work-around.

The windows/samba printer is on a different network.

As root:

SETUP printed the test page, apsfilter would not. And yes, I did type "I".

echo "test" | lpr caused my hard disk to rattle at about 5 second 
interval. lpq reported a 'broken pipe'. Cleared the rattle by lprm -a all.

I got it to print by making an entry into /etc/hosts to point to the 
machine with the printer. echo "test" | lpr works now.

Without the /etc/hosts entry, apsfilter prints ok only if the 
netbios-printer is on the same network. I tested this. This is a bug.


As non-root:
startx
used mozilla and printed a web page just fine.