Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/03/09/14:39:56
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Frank Jacobs wrote:
> > FWIW, this is more likely a base-files/cygwin issue, and not an lpr
> > one. The OP (Cc'd on this reply) didn't attach the output of "cygcheck
> > -svr" as requested in <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>, so this is
> > just a guess, but looks like PRINTER wasn't set correctly.
>
> Sorry for not including that information. I have attached cygcheck
> output both for when I'm running under cygwin 1.5.12-1 and 1.5.13-1.
>
> BTW, in both 1.5.12-1 and 1.5.13-1 the PRINTER environment variable
> is set properly.
Yep, weird. And the value is the same in both cases?
> Also, I agree: probably not an issue with lpr. It just appears that
> lpr exhibits whatever the underlying problem is with cygwin 1.5.13-1.
Just in case, try running "lpr -D -P //server1/printer1"[*] and see what
it prints (it should tell you the exact name of the printer that it's
attempting to open). Unfortunately, lpr is a mostly Windows program, so
strace isn't likely to be of much help...
BTW, does "echo -e 'Test\f' > //server1/printer1" work? That would use
another mechanism for accessing the printer...
Igor
[*] Hmm, you actually have a machine named "server1" with a printer
"printer1" attached to it? How prosaic! :-)
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