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From: mi@rtfm.ziplink.net (Mikhail Teterin)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.smb,comp.sys.hp.hpux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: smbprint & /etc/printcap
Date: 23 Oct 1996 17:41:54 GMT
Organization: Aldan at Newton Upper Falls
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[posted and mailed. some groups added]
Honorable Philip M. Langlois
wrote on 15 Mar (in article <4ic3v9$odd@risky.ecs.umass.edu>):
=I'd like to use an HP1600 printer connected to a PC running
=Win95, but using my Linux box over a LAN. The printcap
=entry has an if= line, which points to the smbprint script.
=How can I use apsfilter or something similar *and* smbprint?
=Incidentally, I'd like to dothis from HP-UX, too, but I'm
=not as familiar with its printer config files.
As honorable John Lucas (jlucas@uvi.edu) already mentioned:
The apsfilter is a wonderful program, but unfortunately it
can only be used on a locally attached printer (according
to the documentation anyway).
For any M$ systems this would have been the end of it. On Unix,
this means, you just need some scripting. Make a script of your own,
which will pipe it's stdin into the apsfilter, and apsfilter's
stdout into some file. Then -- just send this file to the
printer using your favourite smb-script:
#!/bin/sh
#Process the file according to your printer's needs
your-aps-filter-alias > /tmp/to_be_printed.$$
# Print the result. I do not have smbprint installed for whatever reason ;(
echo print /tmp/to_be_printed.$$ | \
/usr/local/samba/smbclient \\\\printserver\\printer -P -N -U $4@$6
# Remove the temporary file:
rm -f /tmp/to_be_printed.$$
This may be an example... If called by `lpd' $4 will be a username,
$6 will be hostname. -N will make sure smbclient does not ask for
password. Also, make sure, lf=/dev/null is in your /etc/printcap
for this printer.
BTW, the latest ghostscript (4.003) supports even more printers!
HPUX may have a printing scheme of it's own, but I am sure they support
lpd as well (IRIX does).
-mi
--
"Windows for dummies"