Re: network printer??

[Kent West <westk@nicanor.acu.edu>]

Peter Moody wrote:

> hi, this is kind of a newbie question, I know, but , um..
> how do I go about setting up a network printer?  or more accurately,
> what is the debain equivalent to the redhat printer-tool?
> for those not farmiliar with printer tool, it's a simple interface that
> allows
> one to choose a networked samba printer by, more or less, just entering
> the ip address
> of the printer host.  I haven't been able to find how to do this in
> debain...
> help.....?
> thanks
> -peter

To my knowledge (which is quite limited), Debian doesn't have a "printer-tool";
instead, you need to manually edit the "/etc/printcap", etc files(s).