Subject: Re: papd and samba printer
From: Thomas Kaiser (Thomas.Kaiser@phg-online.de)
Date: Wed Jun 27 2001 - 11:16:47 EDT
on Wed, 27 Jun 2001 14:31:32 +0200 (CEST), Alle mails voor SMS systeem
wrote:
> Now I would like to be able to print to it from the Mac. Since it is not a
> postscript printer, I can't use Dave on the PCs, but will be using
> netatalk papd.
PAP currently supports also PS-only Printers.
You can do the following:
- create a lpd queue which connects to the windows printer (you can do this
with samba)
- configure another queue to rip incoming ps-jobs with ghostscript and to
forward the output to the first queue
- you can share this queue via papd or/and via samba (so you can print from
the mac with smb to the ghostscript
> What should I put in the print config file for papd ? I have no drivers or
> ppds for the printer.
You can use a generic ppd. A very good explanation can be found here:
<http://www.giub.unibe.ch/~eugster/appleprint.html>
> And how do I restart papd ? I killed it, but don't get it running again...
I think, papd supports rereading it's configuration if you 'kill -HUP' its
process id. So it won't die ;-)
But in your case: to start it again, look how it is invoked in your
netatalk's startscript ;-)
regards,
Thomas
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