Subject: Re: LPR from Mac to linux?
From: Ewen Bell (ewen@twocats.com.au)
Date: Sun Oct 29 2000 - 16:11:25 MST
There are two ways to print from a Mac to a Linux box. Get your mac to talk like a Linux Box (lpd) or get your Linux box to talk like a Mac (appletalk).
You have tried the first method. The error message is not one I am familiar with, but I would start troubleshooting by looking at the syslogs for the Linux box at work. It should tell you whether or not the lpd request was received, and so on. It is possible that you need to do some configuration to allow it to receive requests from the Mac. (make an entry in /etc/hosts.lpd for example).
When using syslog to track down problems you need full debug logging turned on. Add a line like this one to /etc/syslog.conf and then restart syslogd. (you can use tail,less,vi to find the interesting bits after that)
*.debug /var/log/messages
The second method is to run netatalk on the linux box, and configure papd to spool print jobs to the lpd. Papd was mentioned recently on this list. Try searching for "papd" in the archives, or simply read the documentation after installing the netatalk RPM.
http://lists.linuxppc.org/lists/mol-general
Eduard Hoenkamp wrote:
>
> This is the only list with people versed in both linux and MacOS.
> Hence my question to this list, although it is not on MOL per se.
> What do I need to do on the linux side to get Mac's LPR print jobs in
> my Linux queue? My linux box at work spools to another linux that has
> the printer attached to it; that works fine.
> At home I used Apple's 'desktop printing utility' to let my Mac spool
> to my Linux box at work (correct IP, correct DPS file). As follows:
>
> ----------------- -------------- --------------
> | Mac OS at home | | First Linux | | Second linux |
> | spooling to LPR | ==> | (at work) | ==> | (has printer)|
> ----------------- -------------- --------------
>
> When I print on the MacOS side, I get error -5750. I cannot find out
> what that means. I would like to hear from someone who has printed
> from the MacOS LPR queue to linux.
> Yours, Eduard.
-- Ewen Bell Twocats.com.au +61 3 9343 6260
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