Re: [seul-edu] Remote printing

[Ray Olszewski <ray@comarre.com>]

David -- Your setup is sufficiently different from mine that I am not sure
of your problem. I am suspicious of this entry in the *client's* printcap
listing:

>    :rp=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\

The printcap man page describes rp as referencing "remote printer name
argument", not the clearest bit of man-page explanation I've ever
encountered. I wonder, though, if 

        :rp=lp:\

might work better (the example they give is "lp", which looks like a
printcap entry, not "/var/spool/lpd/lp", which looks like a spool
directory). This approach is also consistent with the example that comes
with Debian installs of the lpr package, namely:

# rlp|Remote printer entry:\
#         :lp=:\
#         :rm=remotehost:\
#         :rp=remoteprinter:\
#         :sd=/var/spool/lpd/remote:\
#         :mx#0:\
#         :sh:

I may be wrong ... I'm far from sure here ... but it won't take you long to
check and it might help. If you do try this, I'd appreciate your letting me
know if it worked.

As to your other question ... I have no experience with NIS so cannot offer
any help with it.

At 07:32 PM 9/7/00 -0500, Dave Prentice wrote:
>Ray:
>    Regarding our exchange of meaasges about my remote printing problems
>last week, the Laserjet 4 is connected to the host (called "teacher") on the
>parallel port. It works just fine when I print directly from teacher.
>    In teacher's printcap file (created with printtool), after the comment
>lines it reads:
>lp:\
>    :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
>    :mx#0:\
>    :sh:\
>    :lp=/dev/lp0:\
>    :if=/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter:
>
>In the client pc6a's printcap file (also created with printtool), after the
>comment lines it reads:
>lp:\
>    :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
>    :mx#0:\
>    :rm=teacher:\
>    :rp=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
>    :if=/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter:
>
>    When I go to printtool on the client and tell it to print a test page it
>says it did, but nothing ever comes across to the server. Any ideas?
>    Also, re my question yesterday about what directories or files to
>include for export in NIS, I have no idea which ones to specify. Can you
>help me there too?

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