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From: rhodes@grebyn.com (Ned Rhodes)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Printing gotchas
Message-ID: <20851@grebyn.com>
Date: 30 Jul 90 22:18:22 GMT
Reply-To: rhodes@grebyn.com (Ned Rhodes)
Organization: Software Systems Group, Arlington, VA
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	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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