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Topic: Settings not saved or restored, Plumbing further depths of inadequacy

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henk1955
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Posted: Sep. 29 2004,15:06

if you start dsl a diilo pops op look at it

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Posted: Sep. 30 2004,14:17

Thanks I found the "getting started with mydsl ..." etc.

Today's tries:

Reinstalled my printer settings, removed printer lines from filetoll.lst, backed up, made a spool_HPLaserJ5000.tar.gz as suggested and put it on my hd 'hdb1' where my backup.tar.gz is. Rebooted via F2 options and typed:

dsl lpd restore=hdb1 dsl mydsl=hdb1

which shows 'lpd started' and 'done' for restore on boot scroll screen. Don't think I saw any message about mydsl though.

{is this the right way to enter it? I also tried:
dsl lpd mydsl=hdb1 restore=hdb1 and got a whole lot of cloop errors and my mouse wouldn't work}.

But get the same problem - lots of squiggles above the slit - and this way Ted doesn't see the printer at all.

Also tried putting opt/appsfilter in filetool.lst instead of full path to appsfilterrc and smbclient.conf as suggested. Get same result as above.

Sigh.

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Posted: Sep. 30 2004,15:11

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dsl lpd restore=hdb1 dsl mydsl=hdb1

the "dsl" in the middle should not be there.
do you have any extension in /mnt/hdb1 ?

i have no explanation for

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dsl lpd restore=hdb1 dsl mydsl=hdb1

not working it should work. but a typo in the restore= part is fatal
i have set up a smb printer myself. test it. and it worked.
this is the important part of my filetool.lst ( so this time i do NOT use a printer.tar.gz settings file)

Code Sample

/opt/apsfilter
/opt/printcap
/var/spool/lpd

after reboot the printer works.
i test printing from xterm:
lpr -Pprintername filetool.lst (to print filetool.lst)

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Posted: Oct. 01 2004,10:19

Success!!! Thanks Henk!

I put these lines just as they are in filetool.lst, set up the printer and backed up to hdb1:

opt/apsfilter/
opt/printcap
var/spool/lpd/

Reboot with dsl lpd restore=hdb1 AND BINGO. All of appsfilter was succesfully restored. I think I had typed something wrong before. Also, I didn't have "/" on the end of var/spool/lpd before. I'm not sure if it made any difference but I removed the line export PRINTER=HPLaserJ5000 line from bootlocal.sh since Ted apparantly does not need it to see the printer automatically once the driver has started (perhaps this was necessary in an earlier build of dsl?).But the burst of red squiggle activity is STILL there but it does not prevent successful printing and it dies down after a few minutes. Is it conceivably my printer driver trying to do something defective while it starts? Could it be something to do with my net settings? Typing netstat -an while it is going shows a connection to a server on port 80, not my final external ip according to www.whatismyip.com, presumably beyond my default gateway/webproxy although this path is not shown in netstat. This is a bit puzzling - I will check out this ip though and do a tracert to it.

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roberts

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Posted: Oct. 01 2004,19:18

The export of PRINTER name is still a good idea. Ted may not use it but other apps surely will.
The activity you mention on port 80 is normal. When Ted is started DSL is trying to fetch the Ted help files and has nothing to do with your printer driver.

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