[NTLUG:Discuss] More Printing Problems

[Greg Hewett]

OK, I just want to understand the problem completely, and suggest an
alternative to  your solution.  You have a printer connected to the parallel
port of a Red Hat box.  You are remote printing to using samba from another
Red Hat box.  The third Corel Box, will not print.  right?

LPD has remote printing capabilities. add :rm=remotehostname: to the printcap
file, and add an entry to the /etc/hosts.lpd on the print server containing
the hostsnames of the host you want to allow to print there.

Anyway, I could go on and on, but if you need more help I would be glad to
help.

greg

On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 02:52:25PM -0600, Carter B. Bennett wrote:
> Okay'
> I have wasted a whole day so far. These are the facts so far:
> 
> 1. I have a payroll server over in the corner running RH 5.1 with a Okidata
>     Laser printer attached, working great.
> 2. My desktop unit runs RH 6.0 and through the Control-Panel I setup the
>     Okidata as a SAMBA printer (lp0), and it works great.
> 3. On a third computer I have installed Corel Linux. I set up a SAMBA printer,
>     when I picked Windows/SAMBA style printer, a box opened showing all the
>     computers in the OTR workgroup. I go to the payroll server and double
>     click, down drop all the shared dirs and printers, I double click the lp0
>     (Okidata Printer) and the box files in //payroll/lp0. I'm thinkin hell ya,
>     now were talken.
> 4. But when I "lpr file" I get :
>     lpr: connect:  Connection refused
>     jobs queued, but cannot start daemon.
> 
>     But if I do a "ps -aux |grep lpd" it shows to be running.
>     This is turning out to be a real butt scratcher.
> 
> 5.  The printcap file is:
> 
> ##PRINTTOOL3## SMB laserjet 0x0 letter  {} LaserJet 0  {}
> lp:\
> 	:sd=/var/spool/lpd/PR:\
> 	:mx#0:\
> 	:sh:\
> 	:if=/var/spool/lpd/PR/filter:\
> 	:lp=/dev/null:
> ##PRINTTOOL3## SMB laserjet 0x0 letter  {} LaserJet 0  {}
> PR:\
> 	:sd=/var/spool/lpd/PR:\
> 	:mx#0:\
> 	:sh:\
> 	:if=/var/spool/lpd/PR/filter:\
> 	:lp=/dev/null:
> 
> 
> I hope this gives someone some sort of clue to help me. The wall I'm bangin my
> head on is real hard.
> 
> Thanks in advance.	
> 
> 
> --
> 
> 
> Carter B. Bennett
> Little House Computer Services (LHCS)
> 
> Using Red Hat 6.0 & Corel Linux (A laptop's wet dream.) 
> Linux Rocks!!!
> 
> You may be able to kill two birds with one stone, but in the end,
> when it's all over, all you really have is two dead birds, 
> and your short one stone.
> 
> My tires were slashed and I almost crashed but the Lord had mercy.
> 					Bruce Springsteen, Rosalita, 1973 
> 
> 
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