Re: Need help for printer Configuration

[Oommen Thomas <oommen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote:

thaths> Lateral Software Technologies proclaimed:
thaths> > I have a HP 2100 M Printer. It is connected to a RH 5.2 server.
thaths> > When I try Printing from the local machine it prints fine. But
thaths> > when I print from a remote  machine it says it has queed but 
thaths> > nothing is cominig out at the other end. Can any one Explain me
thaths> > How to Configure Remote Printer in the client and What should I 
thaths> > do at the server side where I have the actual Printer.
thaths> 
thaths> Let us say you have the printer ('Dogmatix') connected to machine Asterix. 
thaths> Let us also assume that you are trying to print to Dogmatix from remote
thaths> machine Obelix.  Since you are able to print to Dogmatix from Asterix, the
thaths> printer daemon (lpd) seems to be running just fine.
thaths> 
thaths> The problem seems to be the /etc/printcap entry on machine Obelix.  Read
thaths> the printcap manpage (don't trust crappy GUIs to set things up for you) for
thaths> information on how to set up an entry for remote printers.
thaths> 
thaths> Alternatively, you can just use rlpr
thaths> (http://sherilyn.ne.mediaone.net/~meem/rlpr/).  This way, you only have to
thaths> worry about the /etc/printcap entry in machine 'asterix'.
thaths> 
thaths> You would call it like so:
thaths> 
thaths> $ rlpr --printer=Dogmatix@Asterix foo.txt
thaths> 
thaths> Thaths

With the newer RH GUI's, one (especially non-techies who are not
interetsed in the inner details) need not know of all these stuff.

Setting up a remote printer is as simple as follows.

1. Execute 'printtool' from an X-terminal or from the 'Printer 
Configuration' icon in 'Control-Panel'.
2. Select 'Add' option
3. Select 'Remote Unix(lpd) Queue' as the Printer type
4. In the next dialog box do the following
  a) Name 	 : lp 
  b) Queue	 : /var/spool/lpd/lp 
  c) Remote Host : <Name of the Print Server machine>
  d) Remote Queue: /var/spool/lpd/lp 
5. Specify the 'Input Filter' as same as on the Print Server

Thats it.
Now any print command issued from the 'client' machine will use the remote
printer.

PS: The values for a), b) and d) assume the case when there is only one
printer setup. The next ones will be lp0, lp1 etc.

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