Re: Cannot print from diskless-workstations

[Marius Kotsbak <marius.kotsbak@gmail.com>]

Den 20. mai 2012 20:52, skrev Ole-Anders Andreassen:
> Anyone who has succeeded printing from diskless workstations, and 
> willing to share the recipe ?
>
> OleA
>
>
>
> On 18. mai 2012 15:09, olea@skolelinux.no wrote:
> > > Hi Ole,
> > >
> > > On Fr 18 Mai 2012 14:10:10 CEST  wrote:
> > >
> > > > Added Printer in Cups.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > When I boot the machine as a thinclient I can print, but not when 
> > > > booted
> > > > as a diskless-workstation. I do not see the prinet.
> > > >
> > > > I can't find much info about adding printers in the squeeze-manual,
> > > > other
> > > > than using CUPS.
> > > >
> > > > I added the printer to NIS Netgroup printer-hosts, this didn't help.
> > > >
> > > > Any suggestions?
> > >
> > > put
> > >
> > >     /etc/init.d/cups restart
> > >     /etc/init.d/autofs restart
> > >
> > > into /etc/rc.local of the diskless workstation chroot on the LTSP 
> > > server.
> > >
> > > Both services (autofs/CUPS) fail from time to time. It is a race
> > > condition issue between those services and network-manager (which
> > > sometimes is coming up with an IP address too late).
> > >
> > > Mike
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > Tried this, but it didn't help.
> > I edited /etc/rc.local using "LANG=C chroot /opt/ltsp/i386/ vim
> > /etc/rc.local"
> >
> > No printer on the diskless workstation, but I can print testpage from 
> > Cups
> > and from thin-clients.

Do you know if the printers are also missing from standalone workstations?

I guess the diskless workstations needs a config that says it can use 
the server as printer server, and it works with the thin clients since 
the print server is local.

--
Marius