Re: Printing to Win2K share printer with apsfilter via samba fails

[Andreas Klemm <akl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 09:18:08AM +0100, Michael Loßin wrote:
> apsfilter-help@apsfilter.org schrieb am 13.11.02 20:08:35:
> > > Printer entry created by apsfilter setup in /etc/printcap:
> > > # APS1_BEGIN:printer1
> > > # - don't delete start label for apsfilter printer1
> > > # - no other printer defines between BEGIN and END LABEL
> > > hp845c|ijs/DESKJET_845;r=600x300;q=high;c=full;p=a4;m=auto:\
> > >     :lp=/dev/null:\
> > 
> > /dev/null ?!?  Are you sure this is supposed to be here?
> > The setup should have done this (or is it just for
> > testing purposes?).

/dev/null is only valid, if you configure a Unix remote printer
or another network printer .... so to say when you don't need
a local output device.

> > > Checking spool logs:
> > > # tail /var/spool/lpd/hp845c/log
> > > apsfilter: The configuration file
> > > /usr/local/etc/apsfilter/hp845c/apsfilterrc
> > > apsfilter: is missing. Please run SETUP.
> > 
> > > But this file DOES exist:
> > > [it really does]
> > 
> > It's probably a file permission problem. Please tell us
> > what the permissions of
> > "/usr/local/etc/apsfilter/hp845c/apsfilterrc" are.
> > 
> > Its set to 600.
> 
> This is not guaranteed to work -- it depends on the
> printer spooler. Please make it world readable
> (chmod 644 /usr/local/etc/apsfilter/hp845c/apsfilterrc)
> and try again. (Don't forget the lp=/dev/lp0 stuff,
> and restart the printer spooler daemon.)

One people reported, that he had permission problems,
because he had a very secure umask as root. Like you.
Then SETUP creates the files with exactly that permissions.

As a workaround I fixed this be setting a proper umask in
SETUP now.

So you should either fix your umask or simply use
apsfilter 7.2.4 !!!!!


	Andreas ///

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