Re: printing problem
Olafur Jens Sigurdsson wrote:
> Þann 2006-02-13, 13:07:46 (+0000) skrifaði Olafur Jens Sigurdsson:
>> Hi
>>
>> I have a problem printing to a network printer here at school.
>>
>> The spool that the school provides is no good so I am trying to create
>> my own on my computer and talk directly to the printer (then I allso
>> have better control over my printing, I like that more).
> Hi again, after trying a few stuff out I think that when I try to
> print using lp -dojs (or lpr -Pojs, where ojs is the name of the
> printer queue I set up for the printer) then that program tries to
> contact the server of the school, and not my local cups server where
> of couse there is no ojs spool. How do I tell lp (or lpr) to use the
> localhost cups server and not the one that the school provides?
Have you tried changing the setting of ServerName in the file
/etc/cups/client.conf (and then running "/etc/init.d/cupsys restart") ?
/usr/bin/lpr is the version of lpr in the cupsys-bsd package, right?
(Run "dpkg -S /usr/bin/lpr" to check)
Good luck,
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