Re: Using a novell shared printer from debian.
Clive Menzies wrote:
> On (27/07/05 22:26), Kent West wrote:
>>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!!)
>
>
> Wow! You really are p*ssed ;)
>
> Yep. I found trying to do anything IPP (via KDE) a nightmare and as for
> xprint .....
>
> The one document that seems to get me up and running painlessly (using
> cups) is this one:
> http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/Debian-and-Windows-Shared-Printing.html
>
> .... not given me a headache yet.
>
> In my exprerience, printing can be a pain in any operating system when
> it goes wrong. I recall hours of fun with Mac OS8/9.
>
> Regards
>
> Clive
>
Hi Clive and Kent,
There's an updated version of the mini-howto you referenced above found
at: http://excess.org/docs/linux_windows_printing.html
I am painfully going through the same nightmare here and after calming
down a day or so from brain overload, I might have to ask for more
specific help in trying to just print from one Debian box to another.
Don
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