Thank you. I was able to get remote printing to work. The printer is an HP Laserjet attached to one machine's printer port. I had to create an /etc/hosts.lpd file; listing the hosts in hosts.equiv didn't work, contrary to the Printing HOWTO.
I may take you up on the offer to help install cups. I like the simple approach, however; and besides, isn't cups proprietary? Alan , , On Wed, 17 Oct 2001 11:49:33 -0400 dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 10:51:27AM +1000, Alan E. Davis wrote: > | In my high school classroom we have a small network of four linux > | boxen, with private block ip addresses (our Public School System > | domain is in a private block), with one printer. I have been able > | to ftp/telnet between my own boxen, but I am unskilled so don't know > | how much I can do with/among my colleagues who are running Windoze. > | I wonder about security, but I think we are ok to at least share one > | printer via our "Internet" non-internet network. > > Where is the printer? Is it plugged straight into your machine > (parallel, usb, serial, whatever) or is it on the network (ipp or > jetdirect) or is it shared from a windows host via samba or shared > via lpd (or cups/ipp) on a unix host? > > I like the CUPS printing system. It works well for me. Install the > 'cupsys', 'cupsys-client' and 'cupsys-bsd' packages. Read the > documentation that comes with cups, and if it is overwhelming come > back with more details on your network/printer topology. > > If you have the printer and want to allow the windows hosts to use it, > or it is on a windows machine and you want to use it, also install the > samba package. For using a windows printer, the URI is > smb://<host>/<printer name>. To share your printer with a windows > machine, put "printing = cups" in the /etc/samba/smb.conf file (it > defaults to 'bsd' I think) and get rid of the printcap line. Make > sure a "[printers]" section exists and allows access. The samba howto > has more details. > > HTH, > -D > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
