Two printing problems

Two printing problems

[Jaime Herazo B.]

Hi. I've been using dosemu to run an accounting package on a place i
assist from time to time. I has worked well (apart from the fact that in
the console the ascii borders and decorations look weird, but it's no
big deal), but this week two new machines were added there, one that had
been used to write letters and stuff like that in staroffice (it has
Mandrake 7.2 and dosemu 1.0.1-6), named Darwin, and another one, a brand
new machine with Mandrake 8.2 (dosemu 1.0.1-8) called Server (it doubles
as a file server for the rest now, and i know, it's a dumb name, but it
was necessary, long story :) ). Both use lpr because i've had problems
with cups and Epson dot-matrix printers, so it's very standard stuff.

The problems are: In Darwin, printing doesn't work from dosemu. The
config files are correct, it's pointing to the right printer in the
printcap (the only one in there anyway), and the user can print directly
("lpr sometextfile.txt" works just fine). Just to be sure i added
"c_printer" to that user in the dosemu.users file, but it didn't worked
anyway. I used logging as stated in the HOWTO, and i found that the
temporary file it creates when ordered to print something is indeed
created, but it doesn't print anyway. Thinking it was some permissions
issue, i ran it as root and tried to print, with the same results. Not
even "type somefile.txt > prn" works. The configfiles are in general the
ones that came with the dosemu RPM, and had worked well in the other
computers. 

In server, everything works, but printing has a problem, and is that
when printing from dosemu, the printer makes a pause after each text
line, making it annoyingly slow. I haven't thoroughly checked this one,
as i was dedicated to fixing Darwin, so you can suggest even the obvious.

I'm out of ideas, so i'd appreciate suggestions on these problems.


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RE: Two printing problems

[Greg LaBossiere]

On Thursday, July 11, 2002 11:06 AM, Jaime Herazo B. 
[SMTP:jherazo@linuxfreemail.com] wrote:
> In server, everything works, but printing has a problem...

It is not clear from your email which host has the DOS application 
running under DOSEMU, and to which  printer(s) attached to which host(s) 
the DOS print jobs are being sent. You may have a problem with print job 
permissions.

You need to list the remote hosts allowed to send print jobs to the 
localhost's lpd daemon in /etc/hosts.lpd or /etc/hosts.equiv (depending 
on your Linux distro). Refer to 'man lpd' for more info. This may be (at 
least part of) your DOSEMU printing problem. I hope this info helps...

Greg LaBossiere
XVIEW SOLUTIONS INC.
mailto:greg.labossiere@xview.com

Re: Two printing problems

[Jaime Herazo B.]

* Greg LaBossiere (solutions@xview.com) wrote:
> It is not clear from your email which host has the DOS application 
> running under DOSEMU, and to which  printer(s) attached to which host(s) 
> the DOS print jobs are being sent. You may have a problem with print job 
> permissions.

Sorry, i failed to give enough info. Both printers are connected to each
computer directly. The printing works perfectly in everything except
dosemu, which makes the problem something a little bit weirder. I can,
say, do a "lpr sometextfile.txt" in the commandline, and it works fine.
I can print perfectly in staroffice and other apps, but when i try
printing in dosemu, the problems i described arise. In one, slow
printing, and in the other, no printing at all.

See why did i had to ask for help? :)


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