Re: lpr works but print panel does not

Article View: comp.sys.next.sysadmin

Article #1784

Back to comp.sys.next.sysadmin Previous Next

#1784

From: Christian Kurrer
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1992 17:01

24 lines
1528 bytes

In article <BvoypD.5zt@world.std.com> gsk@world.std.com (Geoffrey S  
Knauth) writes:
> A friend asks:
> 
> "I simply cannot get buckaroo (in Wendy's office) to print via the
> NeXTstep print panels.  It is driving me to distraction.  Printing the
> Unix way (lpr) works fine, so I know the daemons and the NetInfo stuff
> for printer routing (printcap) is all set up correctly, but whenever
> you try to print from buckaroo from a NeXT print panel, it spins for
> 30 seconds before saying `Unable to connect to printer daemon.'  That's
> hogwash, since I can clearly connect to the printer daemon via lpr."
> 
> "Any idea what the print panel is doing that lpr is not?
> Any idea how to fix this (it works from other computers)."
> -- 
> Geoffrey S. Knauth, Marble Associates, Inc.               

I got exactly the same problem on our Next Network. But as people reboot  
their machine pretty often, these problems appear and disappear  
continuously. 

I'd be interested in the solution, too.

Christian Kurrer

Technical Details

Message-ID: <BvpLyx.Dyn@news.cso.uiuc.edu>

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!think.com!sdd.hp.com!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!news.cso.uiuc.edu!usenet

References: <BvoypD.5zt@world.std.com>

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!think.com!sdd.hp.com!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!news.cso.uiuc.edu!usenet
From: kurrer@lisboa.ks.uiuc.edu (Christian Kurrer)
Subject: Re: lpr works but print panel does not
References: <BvoypD.5zt@world.std.com>
Message-ID: <BvpLyx.Dyn@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
Sender: usenet@news.cso.uiuc.edu (Net Noise owner)
Reply-To: kurrer@lisboa.ks.uiuc.edu
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 17:01:41 GMT
Lines: 24

Reply to Parent Message