wilker@gauss.math.purdue.edu (Clarence Wilkerson) (12/20/90)
I'm trying to get the binaries from the recent version of LPD for the PC ( PC based print server ) to work. From my sun to the PC, the files get downloaded and the proper spool files created. However the LPD program shows the files as having 0 length, and no action shows up on the printer. Does any one have this going? This is beta release 1.4 by D. Johnson at Old Miss. Clarence Wilkerson
kath@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (William L. Kath) (12/20/90)
In article <2955@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> wilker@gauss.math.purdue.edu.UUCP (Clarence Wilkerson) writes: >I'm trying to get the binaries from the recent version of LPD for >the PC ( PC based print server ) to work. From my sun to the PC, >the files get downloaded and the proper spool files created. However >the LPD program shows the files as having 0 length, and no action >shows up on the printer. > Does any one have this going? This is beta release 1.4 by >D. Johnson at Old Miss. >Clarence Wilkerson > I would also be interested in any comments. We've been trying to get the program to work and have been having trouble, too. In our case, the files get downloaded, the spool and control files get created, and then the program apparently *deletes* the control files before actually doing any printing. I've talked to Mr. Johnson at Ole' Miss, and he's been helping out, but it's kind of hard for him to debug his code from 1000 miles away (esp. when on a PC). I'm not a C programmer, but I may be learning soon :). In case anyone out there has got this to work, I've tried this on several machines (286-386, several brands) with the same behavior. All are on a Western Digital StarLan (but since the files transfer OK, I didn't think it would be a networking problem). Also, NCSA telnet and KA9Q NOS all work fine with the packet drivers from Clarkson. I used the default configurations (they seemed OK), put the program and config files in /spool, and created /spool/lpd for the files to be printed and for the control files. Is there something else I'm missing? This will be a *great* addition to the available PD networking software for PCs once the bugs are out. Thanks in advance, Bill Kath ----------------------- kath@delta.eecs.nwu.edu Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics A Guest of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University