[cups.general] FreeBSD lpr to CUPS ?

[Helge Blischke]

Frank Bonnet wrote:

> Hello
> 
> I've installed a 1.5 CUPS server on a Linux box and
> I'm trying to remotely print from a FreeBSD machine
> using the BSD standard lpr command
> 
> The client's printcap looks like the following
> 
> d640|d640 remote printer:\
>        :sh:\
>        :lp=:rm=pdc:mx#0:sd=/var/spool/output/d640:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:\
>        :sh:sf:rp=d640:
> 
> starting and enabeling the "d640" printer seems OK when using lpc
> but the jobs stay stucked on the client machine with the following
> message
> 
> waiting for pdc to come up
> 
> "pdc" is the cups server ...
> 
> Is there someting to modify on the SERVER configuration so that it
> accepts jobs from my BSD machine ???
> 
> Thank you

Did you configure and enable the cups-lpd daemon on your cups server 
machine?

Helge