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Re: remote printing problem



On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 10:00:22AM -0900, Greg C. Madden wrote:
> 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 ? 

Weird I don't seem to have this file on my system



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