On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 10:43:42AM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 09:57:56PM -0500, William Boshuck wrote: > > ... you can use rg in /etc/printcap. > > IIRC, LRNng also lets you make it easy so that, for example, if you have > 1000 users in 100 work groups, with 100 work group printers, each user > can just print and their work will go to their own work-group printer, > or, if it is down, perhaps to a backup printer in the work group > next-door.
I hadn't intended to respond to these points (in fact, I hadn't read them at the time), only to: > ... I think that lpd just lets you specify what boxes can make > print requests. cheers, -b