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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Network Printing
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 1995 15:07:45 -0800
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Well, no sooner had I read this and shouted (discretely of course)
"COOL!" a couple of times, then did I think 2 things:

1. It would be most massively wonderful if the author were to submit
this to doc@freebsd.org so that it might be suitably enshrined and
preserved for the benefit of FreeBSD users everywhere.

2. I should try it.

I dutifully followed all the steps tried to print something.  Zilch.
Checking the message logs, I saw:

Nov 13 14:56:18 time lpd[22403]: cannot execv
/usr/local/samba/bin/smbprint

Hmmm!  Says I.  Let's run the filter by hand:

jkh@time-> smbprint 
cat: /usr/local/bin/.config: No such file or directory

Hmmmm!!  Let's move the .config file into /usr/local/bin from the
suggested /var/spool/smb.

Now the job queues, but sticks forever.  No output.

I'm sure I'm just doing something stupid, but any tips would be
appreciated!  This would be a very convenient thing to do for many
people..
-- 
						Jordan