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In article <1993Jan11.155625.18505@riogrande.cs.tcu.edu> Craig Morgenstern,
morgenst@riogrande.cs.tcu.edu writes:
>We've just switched from IPtalk via a kbox to native ethertalk (phase 2) on
>a SUN3 (4.0.3) and a SPARCstation-2 (4.1.1), and now laserwriter access is 
>broken on both machines.  In lpd-errs, we get the following message
>
>	Jan 11 09:14:39 red lpd[3238]: restarting lw132
>	Jan 11 09:15:29 red last message repeated 59 times
>
>
>Here's the printcap entry, cap.printers entry, and the shell script to
>invoke papif (these worked when we were using IPtalk):
>
>	(printcap)
>	lw132:\
>         	:lp=/dev/lw132:\
>         	:sd=/var/spool/lw132:\
>         	:sf:\
>         	:lf=/var/adm/lw-log:\
>         	:if=/usr/local/lib/cap/lw132:\
>         	:of=/usr/local/lib/cap/papof:
>
>	(cap.printers)
>	lw132=132 PLW:LaserWriter@CoSc Labs
>
>	(lw132 shell script)
>	#!/bin/sh
>	BANNERLAST=0
>	BANNERFIRST=0
>	DOACCT=0
>	export BANNERLAST BANNERFIRST DOACCT
>	/usr/local/lib/cap/papif -P lw132 $*
>
>Aufs, atlook, etc all work fine, and we can print a postscript file to lw132
>using lwpr.  Under ethertalk, the machines are in a different zone than
>they were when running IPtalk.  etcdest and all other dests were all set to
>/usr/local/lib/cap.
>
>I've RTFM all weekend, and I'm completely stymied.  I haven't been following
>threads about printer probs, so I don't know if this is a common prob or not.
>Could someone in the know please enlighten me?  Any suggestions would be
>very much appreciated!
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Craig Morgenstern
>morgenst@riogrande.cs.tcu.edu

	What is the protection of /dev/nit in your SUNs?
	I had to "chmod 660 /dev/nit", "chgrp staff papif" and "chmod g+s papif" (set
gid bit
to staff). Then it all worked!
	Hope this helps!
	
	Paulo Goncalves.

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