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Re: remote printing problem



begin  quoting what Jeroen Valcke said on Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 10:08:13AM +0200:
> 
> Does this mean I have to add every remote printer in my printcap config
> file?

Yes; you're using an lpr program that looks for it's config there.

> However. The problem is solved now, but I don't understand why it worked
> on the redhat system? I checked and their was no entry for the remote
> printer in the printcap file.
> 
> Meanwhile I noticed that rlpr provides the same functionality as lpr on
> my old redhat system. 

There's your answer; on your RedHat system, you were using a program
called rlpr that looks for it's config elsewhere, and printtool was
smart enough to know where to put it.

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