On Wednesday 05 September 2001 22:15, Jens Benecke wrote: > On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 01:14:56PM -0700, David Bishop wrote: > > > > > Would it be better to change from lpr to lnprg or cups? > > Yes :-) Switching to cups is painless, and easy. If this is a home pc, > > apt-get install cupsys cupsys-client kups, configure the server by going > > to localhost:631, and configure kde to use the localhost cups server. I > > use it at both work (with a color laser) and home (with an Epson 777 via > > usb), and it's just great! But I've hated the lpr/lpd/printcap > > "solution" since day one....... > > The coolest thing about CUPS is that once you have _one_ CUPS server in > your network and you configure it as master, it will automatically know > and publish _every_ printer in your network (as long as they are public). > Just activate the browsing feature in cups.conf. > > No local drivers, no hassle, no installing anything.
Yeah! a local cupsys-bsd installation is as light wight as rlpr but much more powerful. But please stop spread the word about cups. Too many IT people lose their jobs today and I don't like the imagination that another dozen of thousand admins lose their job because every Joe User can install and manage printer on Unix systems ;) Achim > > -- > Jens Benecke ········ http://www.hitchhikers.de/ - Europas Mitfahrzentrale > > MSTD, n: MicroSoft Transmitted Disease. Propagates only due to Microsoft's > insistence on distributing [software] that resembles Petri dishes. > See also ILOVEYOU, Melissa, Code Red, Sircam, IIS. > -- http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=MSTD > -- To me vi is Zen. To use vi is to practice zen. Every command is a koan. Profound to the user, unintelligible to the uninitiated. You discover truth everytime you use it. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
