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From: Damian Bickhoff <dmpb at dingoblue.net.au>
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Subject: Re: [H-GEN] lpd
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On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 12:05:44AM +1000, Doug South lamented of lpd:
> But now it appears that lpd isn't doing its job. I've sent print jobs
> to the server via samba. The files show up in the spool directory
> (/var/spool/lpd/remote or /var/spool/lpd/lp or
> /var/spool/lpd/stcolor-raw or ... I've tried them ALL) but then they
> just sit there. I can "cp /var/spool/lpd/remote/print-file /dev/lp0"
> and the proper document slowly pops out of the printer. But lpd seems
> to be asleep. I've HUP'ed lpd and bounced the file server, all to no
> avail.

I'll agree with Ben here -- lpd is evil.  That said, I've managed to get
lprng set up rather nicely with magicfilter, although it did take a
little fiddling; and just recently I installed CUPS on a whim.  I'm
pretty impressed by the web interface.  It really does become a matter
of having the right driver packages installed, then click a few things
according to your printer description and it works.  Even my boss could
install and manage one of these things.

The major inspiration for my switch to CUPS was a combination of KDE
gently nagging that it be installed (even though I don't actually use
KDE), and the fact that it had the Highly Magical gimpprint drivers
available as a bundle, for high quality printing to my Stylus Color.

I remember getting printing from a Windows machine to a Linux-connected
printer working before with some strange printcap stuff.  I'm pretty
sure there's a HOWTO or two at least, and CUPS has some interesting
stuff to do with samba I'm yet to investigate.  If you really need it, I
can probably dig out the relevant configuration files.

In short, if you can get away with not running lpd, do so.  Your sanity
may remain intact a little longer.
-- 
damian

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