Re: remote printing problem

[Jeroen Valcke <jeroen@valcke.com>]

On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 02:04:24PM -0500, Shawn McMahon wrote:
> > On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 05:47, Jeroen Valcke wrote:
> > > 
> > > 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'
> 
> Since you're coming from RedHat, you really ought to:
> 
> apt-get install printtool
> 
> Voila, the RedHat printtool, just like you're used to.

BTW, is there a way to make this new (remote) printer the default
printer? I tried by making a symbolic link from lp to the new printer.
But that doesn't seem to work.


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Jeroen Valcke               jeroen@valcke.com   


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