Printing gotchas
Ned Rhodes
rhodes at grebyn.com
Tue Jul 31 08:18:22 AEST 1990
Let me pass on something that caused me to waste half a day.
All of you who already know this, please flame me quietly.
I have been printing for awhile using the Mac interface. Today
I decided to use lpr. I lpr filename and keep getting this message from
atstatus, saying that no printer was selected from Macintosh chooser (or
something like that). I go up to chooser and yes I have a file selected
and yes printing works from the Mac interface.
I then try at_cho_prn and get the same message. Ok, log in as
root and choose a printer. Same problems.
To make a long story short, the problem was that I did not have
a printer choosen in the Overall System Folder. I had one in my local
System folder and one in the System folder for root, but not in the
GLOBAL system folder. To fix things, I had to disable the root system
folder and log back in and then choose a printer and then everything
works.
I guess that I recommend that you do not create a local system
folder for root. Maybe that was stated in the manuals, but I do not
remember it. Let the users have local system folders, but keep root on
the Global system folder.
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Ned W. Rhodes (703) 534-2297 (voice)
Software Systems Group (703) 237-9654 (fax)
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