I didn’t go to bed…<\/p>\n
I worked through the instructions<\/a>\u00a0and realised that they were for an “embedded” FreeNAS, where I am running a FULL install. \u00a0I worked out that all I needed to do was make the permanent changes that are outlined in the script. \u00a0I also didn’t want to use a RAM disk so changed the printcap file to that suggested in the Instructable I found<\/a>, and created the appropriate directory.<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0# \u00a0 @(#)printcap \u00a0 Canon i550 My devd.conf turned out like this (I don’t have a speaker on the fit-PC slim:<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0# devd.conf I did all the file linking as per the script, rebooted and…<\/p>\n Nothing happened when I tried to print.<\/p>\n So I went through the script. <\/p>\n First I found that I had not given the spooling script the right permissions (700) or ownership (1:1). I got over this somehow last time using these<\/a> threads<\/a> and working out that the code was:<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0ln -s \/usr\/local\/lib\/libintl.so.9 \/usr\/local\/lib\/libintl.so.8<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n It still didn’t work. \u00a0I looked at the \/usr\/bin and my symlinks had disappeared, so I copied over the files instead. \u00a0It still didn’t work. \u00a0I tried a manual print to lpr and got:<\/span><\/i> So I rebooted and tried again. Again.<\/span><\/i> I didn’t go to bed… I worked through the instructions\u00a0and realised that they were for an “embedded” FreeNAS, where I am running a FULL install. \u00a0I worked out that all I needed to do was make the permanent changes that are outlined in the script. \u00a0I also didn’t want to use a RAM disk so … Continue reading FreeNAS as print server<\/span>
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0lp|deskjet:\\
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0:sd=\/var\/spool\/lpd\/bare<\/b>:\\
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0:sh:\\
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0:lp=\/dev\/ulpt0:<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0# start action when USB printer ulpt0 is plugged in
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0# wait 3 seconds and then start the spooler daemon
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0#
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0attach 100 {
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 device-name “ulpt0”;
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 action “sleep 3; lpd;
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 checkpc -f;
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 chown 0:0 \/dev\/ulpt0;
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 chmod 666 \/dev\/ulpt0;”;
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0};<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n
Next I ran checkpc and was reminded of this error:
“Shared object “libintl.so.8″ not found”<\/p>\n
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\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/i><\/span>lpr \/mnt\/data\/printtest.prn\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/i>
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/i><\/span>Status Information, attempt 1 of 3:<\/i><\/span>
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/i><\/span>sending job ‘root@minime+2078’ to lp@localhost<\/i><\/span>
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/i><\/span>connecting to ‘localhost’, attempt 1<\/i><\/span>
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/i><\/span>cannot open connection to localhost – No such file or directory<\/i><\/span>
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/i><\/span>Make sure the remote host supports the LPD protocol<\/i><\/span>
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/i><\/span>Waiting 10 seconds before retry<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n
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Out popped the print job! \u00a0Ubuntu suddenly showed the printer as alive and I was away.<\/span><\/i>
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I go to bed happy. \u00a0Hope this helps someone. \u00a0Please comment if it does.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"