Re: [seul-edu] Re: HELP!

[Dave Prentice <dprentice@uno.edu>]

Bob,
    Your instructions for printcap were exactly what I needed. All 6 clients
are now printing fine to the remote host.
    The Linux Printing HOWTO is just flat wrong in how to set up printcap on
a remote. It says to include the line ":lp=/dev/null:\", but it never worked
that way. Your way is the right way. Somebody ought to tell those guys. At
the very least, SEUL should keep in the archives for future reference.
    Thanks. I owe you big time. If you ever get to New Orleans I will take
you out for crawfish etouffe and file' gumbo.

Dave Prentice
prentice@instruction.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Hopcroft <hopcroft@uswest.net>
To: seul-edu@seul.org <seul-edu@seul.org>
Date: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 1:28 PM
Subject: Re: [seul-edu] Re: HELP!


Dave Prentice wrote:

> 1. After weeks of effort, network printing is still not running. The
Redhat
> printtool creates a printcap file that is formatted a little differently
> than the one described in the printing HOWTO. Neither version works from
> remote machines. This is a desktop publishing class with no way for the
kids
> to print -- so what's the point of such a class? I haven't been able to
get
> the info I need from redhat and don't know where else to turn.

I'm running Red Hat 6.2 and I have an HP Laserjet 4L.

teacher /etc/printcap should be:

lp:\
    :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
    :mx#0:\
    :sh:\
    :lp=/dev/lp0:\
    :if=/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter:

there should also be another file on teacher /etc/hosts.lpd containing

pc6a


pc6a /etc/printcap should be

lp:\
    :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
    :mx#0:\
    :sh:\
    :rm=teacher:\
    :rp=lp:\
    :if=/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter:

Finally when setting the filter on pc6a don't set eject page or you will get
an
extra blank page.

Bob