print to remote printer on LAN?
All the networking stuff I've done for the last couple years has involved
low-spec old junk boxes running as terminals, with all the resources attached
to the server.
My server's USB bus has taken a dump. The box is otherwise fine, but this
means I can no longer use my USB printer. I've got full-on Sarge installs on
the terminals, so it occurs to me I really should just figure out how to set
things up so I can print from the server to a remote printer on one of the
terminals.
I just don't have any clue off hand how to set that up.
I'm not sure if it will make any particular difference, but the person logged
into the box to which the printer is attached won't be running applications
on his/her own computer, so I suppose I want the server's CUPS aware of the
thing in such a way that everyone can print to it the same way they can print
to the printer attached to the server. That detail will probably take care
of itself, but it bears mentioning.
I did try to set up CUPS to print to a fancy color laser with its own ethernet
once. I could ping it, but I never figured out the magic words to stick into
the URL box, and I never managed to do more than make the printer blink some
lights and then lock up. Google and linuxprinting.org were no help at all.
This case is a little different. I need hotplug running on the remote box,
and I guess I need to set it up with CUPS, then make this CUPS talk to that
one. It has to be CUPS. It's a nasty winprinter with binary-only RPM
drivers that are a grade A pain in the ass to get working. It only speaks
CUPS.
Hrm. I guess I know enough to start googling, but I'm in the middle of doing
some open source developer type stuff at the moment, and I'm hoping someone
will take pity on me and toss me a solution with a big bow tie on it. I'll
have enough trouble just getting these damn Lexmark drivers working on the
other computer. It ate a whole afternoon the last time. (Though with some
judicious copying, maybe I can just move the installation without breaking
it.)
Thanks.
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