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Re: remote printing problem



On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 05:47, Jeroen Valcke wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Recently I upgraded my pc from Redhat to Debian ;-)
> However since then I have a problem with remote printing. I used to type
> 'lpr -P printer@remoteserver' on the redhat machine. However when I try
> this on the debian box, I get an error 'lpr: printer@remoteserver: unknown
> printer'
> 
> I configured the same remote printer with xpdq and I'm able to print to
> it.
> 
> The printer is configured on the remote server via lpd.
> 
> How can I solve this?

xpdq uses '/etc/pqdq/printrc' lpr uses '/etc/printcap'. Does the entry
you added using xpdq show up in the /etc/printcap file ? 
 
-- 
Greg C. Madden
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0

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