> I am running Red Hat 6.2 on one of the boxes in my lab. I want to
>set up a remote printer that connects to another pc (Red Hat 6.1). >I
>used printtool to set up the remote printer but without success. >Daemon
>won't start on the remote
>host. I checked hosts.lpd and it is ok. I don't have a clue of what >to
>do next. Please help me out.
Eduardo,
I just recently got this working, it mainly seemed to just work.
In my case I had one rhat6.2 computer with an attached (serial)
postscript printer. This was working fine by itself.
I think you are saying that your rhat6.1 has the printer
and that machine is printing fine by itself.
My other machine has rhat5.2
The only steps I had to do:
On the remote -- my rhat6.2 with the working printer
all I had to was set up /etc/hosts.lpd
which in my case has just
byers.pacbell.net <<< this is the rhat5.2 machine
on byers, my rhat5.2 I ran printtool (as root)
that process generated the /etc/printcap file
properly configured for a remote computer
##PRINTTOOL3## REMOTE POSTSCRIPT 300x300 letter {} PostScript Default 1
alw|lp:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/alw:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:\
:rm=corni.pacbell.net:\
:rp=alw:\
:if=/var/spool/lpd/alw/filter:
You must have something close to this, with your choice of names
The printtool command also generates the following files
[byers@byers byers]$ cd /var/spool/lpd/alw
[byers@byers alw]$
[byers@byers alw]$ ls -l
total 27
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9443 Aug 24 09:57 filter
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 192 Aug 24 09:57 general.cfg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19 Aug 24 12:55 lock
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 348 Aug 24 09:57 postscript.cfg
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 29 Aug 24 12:55 status
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 147 Aug 24 09:57 textonly.cfg
[byers@byers alw]$
All of this file creation was automatic as part of running printtool.
that's it; it all just works.
My case may well be easier bc I have a postscript printer,
but the process is similar for any type i think.
hope this helps
Jack
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