apsfilter question/problem SOLVED PARTIALLY
Denny White
dennyboy at cableone.net
Thu Mar 2 11:52:19 PST 2006
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On Feb 27 Denny White spake forth boldly:
>
> On Feb 17 Mike Jeays spake forth boldly:
>> On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 11:09 +0000, Denny White wrote:
>>>
>>> I read the article at Onlamp about printing for the impatient.
>>> Installed apsfilter and samba on my old hp netserver so I'd
>>> be able to print to an hp 722c deskjet printer connected to
>>> an xp box. Gimp-print was also installed. Ghostscript was
>>> already installed. I ran /usr/local/share/apsfilter/./SETUP
>>> & thought I had it whipped. That's where the fun started.
>>> Apparently I've missed something along the way, since the
>>> print job never gets sent to the xp box. I also found out
>>> at linuxprinting.org that the recommended hp 722c driver
>>> is pnm2ppa. There was only one section in the install script
>>> that mentioned that driver, 10) PPA printer, so I chose that.
>>> It plugs it into the setup, but when I try to print a test
>>> page, I get ERROR: additional filter 'pnm2ppa' not found.
>>> I found the driver at linuxprinting.org & downloaded it.
>>> How do I go about using it? Is there a way to compile it
>>> into ghostscript? I have ghostscript-gnu-nox11-7.07_14 &
>>> the apsfilter setup script found it & didn't complain.
>>> Do I need to install another more complete version? I know
>>> if I install ghostscript-afpl, I'll also have to recompile
>>> & reinstall apsfilter with the proper make options. When
>>> I choose the more generic just plain deskjet printer driver,
>>> the script accepts it, and when I try to print a test page,
>>> there's no complaining about the driver like when I try the
>>> ppa driver. Test page is created, supposedly sent to the
>>> xp printer with even a speed, average around 950 kb/s, but
>>> I see where it only goes to stdin. I'm definitely not a
>>> programmer, but another filter, ghostscript, something, has
>>> to relay it to stdout, is that correct?
>>> So, I could use some pointers on this. If anyone interested
>>> in answering needs more info, I'll be glad to plug it in to
>>> a reply. Like smb.conf, apsfilterrc, & so forth. Thanks.
>>> Denny White
>>>
>>
>> This combination worked fine for me.
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------------------
>> # Printcap file: Added 2005-04-25 based on pnm2ppa suggestions.
>>
>> lp|ascii|unix:\
>> :lp=/dev/lpt0:\
>> :sd=/var/spool/lpd:\
>> :if=/home/mike/bin/pnm2ppa-filter:\
>> :mx#0:\
>> :sh:
>> -------------------------------------------------------------
>> #!/bin/sh
>> # printcap-filter
>> TMP=/tmp/pnm2ppa.tmp
>> cat >$TMP
>> ch1=`head -1 $TMP | cut -c 1`
>> if [ "$ch1" = '%' ]
>> then
>> cat $TMP | /usr/local/bin/gs -sDEVICE=ppmraw -q -dNOPAUSE -r600 \
>> -sOutputFile=- - | \
>> /usr/local/bin/pnm2ppa -i - -o -
>> else
>> cat $TMP | /usr/local/bin/enscript -B -q -p - | \
>> /usr/local/bin/gs -sDEVICE=ppmraw -q -dNOPAUSE -r600 \
>> -sOutputFile=- - | \
>> /usr/local/bin/pnm2ppa -i - -o -
>> fi
>> rm $TMP
>>
>
> I've fought this for some time now. I've got samba installed,
> along with creating lpr on the xp box where I want to print
> to the deskjet 722c. Since I added the remote printer section
> below in /etc/printcap, users can no longer print locally,
> only root. I checked the ownerships on /var/spool/output/lpd
> files and nothing's changed from before the printcap addition.
> Also, the file shows up on the xp box in the printspool, but
> never prints.
>
> #
> lp|local line printer:\
> :sh:\
> :lp=/dev/lpt0:sd=/var/spool/output/lpd:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:
> #
> remote|sample remote printer:\
> :rp=HPDeskJet2:\
> :rm=dancer:\
> :sd=/var/spool/samba/remote:\
> :if=/root/hold/printcap-filter:\
> :lf=/var/spool/samba/remote/log:\
> :af=/var/spool/samba/remote/acct:\
> :mx#0:\
> :sh
> #
>
> Also have apsfilter installed but am not using it in printcap or
> in the script that filters lpr's output. The system reports the
> filtering script above successfully filters the file I want to
> print too.
> Another thing, only way I can browse shares from the xp box to
> the fbsd box is to usr security = share in smb.conf. I've tried
> user with & without encrypt passwords in smb.conf & tried the
> xp box with & without enableplaintextpassword & can't get it to
> let me browse. I mention these things too, because I thought it
> might shed some light on what I'm doing wrong. Below are the
> pertinent settings from smb.conf without all the extra comments
> and commented outstuff.
>
> [global]
> workgroup = WHEEL
> server string = Samba %v, running on %h
> security = user
> encrypt passwords = no
> smb passwd file = /usr/local/private/smbpasswd
> obey pam restrictions = no
> hosts allow = dancer, badboybox, mobile1
>
> load printers = yes
>
> printing = bsd # tried without uncommenting out
> # and with bsd & cups
>
> passdb backend = smbpasswd
>
> socket options = TCP_NODELAY
>
> add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd %u
> add group script = /usr/sbin/groupadd %g
> add machine script = /usr/sbin/adduser -n -g machines -c Machine -d
> /dev/null -s /bin/false %u
> delete user script = /usr/sbin/userdel %u
> delete user from group script = /usr/sbin/deluser %u %g
> delete group script = /usr/sbin/groupdel %g
>
>
> #============================ Share Definitions
> ==============================
> [homes]
> comment = Home Directories
> browseable = yes
> writable = yes
>
> [printers]
> comment = All Printers
> path = /var/spool/samba
> browseable = no
> guest ok = no
> writable = no
> printable = yes
>
> [dennyboyshare]
> comment = dennyboy's home directory
> path = /home/dennyboy
> valid users = dennyboy
> public = no
> writable = yes
> printable = yes
>
> Thanks for any & all forthcoming help. This thing's really
> gotten confusing. If there's any other info someone would
> need me to provide, please let me know.
> Denny White
>
Below is the current /etc/printcap file. I can now print legible
files to the hp deskjet 722c on the xp box. Can print okay, too,
to the star 2410 dot-matrix on the fbsd box, but only as root.
That's the keyword "partial in the subject line of this message.
I'd like normal users to be able to print to it again. Set it up
as a shared network printer from the xp box, but naturally, still
can't print to it until the root/user printing issue is resolved.
Thanks for any help I can get on this. Did not sit on my duff in
the interim between this message & the others. Experimented a lot
with different combinations of programs including apsfilter, gs,
samba, cups & so forth, finally coming up with at least a partial
solution.
Denny White
#
lp|local line printer:\
:sh:\
:lp=/dev/lpt0:sd=/var/spool/output/lpd:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:
#
remote|sample remote printer:\
:rp=HPDeskJet2:\
:rm=dancer:\
:af=/usr/local/bin/ppn2ppa.ppd:\
:if=/usr/local/bin/foomatic-rip:\
:sd=/var/spool/samba/remote:\
:mx#0:\
:sh
#
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