Re: Network: how can I set up remote printing (sid/lpr)
Thank you.
I was able to get remote printing to work. The printer is an HP Laserjet attached to one machine's printer port. I had to create an /etc/hosts.lpd file; listing the hosts in hosts.equiv didn't work, contrary to the Printing HOWTO.
I may take you up on the offer to help install cups. I like the simple approach, however; and besides, isn't cups proprietary?
Alan
, , On Wed, 17 Oct 2001 11:49:33 -0400
dman <dsh8290@rit.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 10:51:27AM +1000, Alan E. Davis wrote:
> | In my high school classroom we have a small network of four linux
> | boxen, with private block ip addresses (our Public School System
> | domain is in a private block), with one printer. I have been able
> | to ftp/telnet between my own boxen, but I am unskilled so don't know
> | how much I can do with/among my colleagues who are running Windoze.
> | I wonder about security, but I think we are ok to at least share one
> | printer via our "Internet" non-internet network.
>
> Where is the printer? Is it plugged straight into your machine
> (parallel, usb, serial, whatever) or is it on the network (ipp or
> jetdirect) or is it shared from a windows host via samba or shared
> via lpd (or cups/ipp) on a unix host?
>
> I like the CUPS printing system. It works well for me. Install the
> 'cupsys', 'cupsys-client' and 'cupsys-bsd' packages. Read the
> documentation that comes with cups, and if it is overwhelming come
> back with more details on your network/printer topology.
>
> If you have the printer and want to allow the windows hosts to use it,
> or it is on a windows machine and you want to use it, also install the
> samba package. For using a windows printer, the URI is
> smb://<host>/<printer name>. To share your printer with a windows
> machine, put "printing = cups" in the /etc/samba/smb.conf file (it
> defaults to 'bsd' I think) and get rid of the printcap line. Make
> sure a "[printers]" section exists and allows access. The samba howto
> has more details.
>
> HTH,
> -D
>
>
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