Re: Status of the LPR package
Sergey V Kovalyov writes ("Re: Status of the LPR package"):
>The RedHat's version has one important feature that debian's leack. When
>the printer is remote, debian lpr ignores all filters. So if you have an
>HP with JetDirect card, you're stuck.
I got around this by treating all the printers as local, and having
the filter (hpfilter, a commerical program that amongst other things
allows me to select input/output trays, resoultion, duplex options,
etc) print directly to the printer. And it gets decent page counts.
My biggest thorn with debian lpr is that (and rlogind/rshd suffer from
the same problem) is that they don't recognize netgroups in
/etc/hosts.lpd, so I have to manually add entries to /etc/hosts.lpd
every time I add a new computer to the net.
--
Richard W Kaszeta Graduate Student/Sysadmin
bofh@me.umn.edu University of MN, ME Dept
http://www.menet.umn.edu/~kaszeta
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