[TriLUG] Inter-species printing problem

Jeremy Portzer jeremyp at pobox.com
Wed Mar 12 22:08:20 EST 2003


Here are some things to note about this:
1)  The command to switch printer systems is redhat-switch-printer .
2)  The redhat-config-printer tool in RHL 8 doesn't configure CUPS, so
you'll have to use the web-based interface.  However, this will probably
change in the next release of Red Hat (judging by the beta)

Also, can you mount the windows box's SMB shares?  There might be other
samba/smb problems.  Can you connect to the share with "smbclient
//windowsserver/printsharename" ?

--Jeremy

On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 21:52, Chris Hedemark wrote:
> Switch from LPD to CUPS.  Both come with RH 8.0 but LPD is the default. 
>   CUPS is infinitely easier to work with, and scales up far more than 
> you can imagine (remember, I work in a junkmail print shop)
> 
> 
> On Wednesday, March 12, 2003, at 09:39 PM, Nick Goldwater wrote:
> 
> > Current dilemma:
> >
> > I cannot print from my Redhat 8 box to my win2k box which has my only 
> > printer
> > attached to it. I can not easily switch the printer to the linux box 
> > due to
> > the physical configuration in my small walk in closet office.
> >
> > I have used Redhat's printtool and I receive no errors... just no 
> > prints! SMB
> > and LPD are both running.
> >
> > Any advice or relevant links would be appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Nick
> >
> >
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