Re: Using a novell shared printer from debian.
ilham.firdaus@id.pwc.com wrote:
> I don't have any problem to use the resource of windows environment
> but for the resources of novell shared yes.
>
> for example I can not print any document from my debian box onto a
> shared printer. This printer is shared by a novell server. the ip of
> the server is 192.168.23.1 and the name of printer is Q8111.
>
> So I downloaded ncpfs and try a simple printer with this way:
> nprint -S 192.168.23.1 -U firdaus -P pinter -q Q8111 ./testing.txt
> It printed properly.
>
> But I don't understand how to make a default printer set up in my KDE.
> I use the printer setup menu of the Control Center but I don't know
> which option I should choose in making my debian can print onto a
> netware shared printer.
I think printing is still pretty much a nightmare in Linux.
What I do, is to install cups (aptitude install cupsys - I always have
to install printer drivers also, but I never can remember (the name of
the package is non-intuitive, something like foomatic-db-gimp-print -
why is "gimp" in there?!!!!).
Then point your web browser to "http://localhost:631/admin"; and you
should be able to figure it out from there.
(Why is there no man page for cups or cupsys?!!! Why is it so hard to
find the :631 reference?!! Why is the documentation wrong when it does
mention 631?!! (Recently you've had to add the /admin portion, which is
not referenced in /usr/share/doc/Readme.txt.gz Otherwise you get
nothing)?!! Okay, I'm finished with my rant, except to say that printing
still sucks on Linux!!)
--
Kent
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