[NTLUG:Discuss] Linux Print Server for a hetorogeneous network anyone?

[Chris Cox]

I would think that the option processing would have to be done locally...even
if it required some configuration information just because of the differences
between SysV and BSD print systems.....but I could be wrong.  So in your example
the options would not get passed to the remote printer queue, but rather the
data would get processed locally and then sent to the remote queue.

....oops...scrap that!!  Just looked at the HOWTO....seems that if you want
local filtering, you may have to setup a double queue...that is a local queue
which does the filtering and then sends automatically to another queue which
does the sending to the remote queue.  See the Printing-HOWTO.


Regards,
Chris

Scott Womer wrote:
> 
> I looked over Cisco's "Case Study" and I'm not sure I really want something
> that extravagant.  I'm thinking along the same lines as what you did Chris,
> but I have a question...  using a "remote" printer configuration from my
> other unix servers, will that still allow me to use -o "options" from the lp
> command?  e.g.  "lp -oc -olandscape"   ?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Scott Womer