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On Nov 23 12:49, Jurgen Defurne wrote:
> I do have a real problem, but not with enscript, but with accessing
> the printers.
> 
> In the past, I could set PRINTER to //server/printershare, and use
> enscript and lpr to print out my jobs.
> 
> If I try to print now, I get the following message from lpr :
>         lpr: printer error: can't open '\\beqbrgbrg1ms0p1\psbe31.lnk' for 
> writing: The printer name is invalid.
> 
> Upon further investigation, it seems that I cannot contact any
> printers anymore from cygwin upon our print server, but I
> can see those printers from my explorer.
> 
> Ie. If I do 'ls //server' I should probably see the printer shares,
> like any other share on the same server.

No, the shares under //server are only of type disk, not type printer.

Contacting the printer using the above $PRINTER variable should work in
the snapshots.  Please try the latest one from
http://cygwin.com/snapshots/


Corinna

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