All the networking stuff I've done for the last couple years has involved low-spec old junk boxes running as terminals, with all the resources attached to the server.
My server's USB bus has taken a dump. The box is otherwise fine, but this means I can no longer use my USB printer. I've got full-on Sarge installs on the terminals, so it occurs to me I really should just figure out how to set things up so I can print from the server to a remote printer on one of the terminals. I just don't have any clue off hand how to set that up. I'm not sure if it will make any particular difference, but the person logged into the box to which the printer is attached won't be running applications on his/her own computer, so I suppose I want the server's CUPS aware of the thing in such a way that everyone can print to it the same way they can print to the printer attached to the server. That detail will probably take care of itself, but it bears mentioning. I did try to set up CUPS to print to a fancy color laser with its own ethernet once. I could ping it, but I never figured out the magic words to stick into the URL box, and I never managed to do more than make the printer blink some lights and then lock up. Google and linuxprinting.org were no help at all. This case is a little different. I need hotplug running on the remote box, and I guess I need to set it up with CUPS, then make this CUPS talk to that one. It has to be CUPS. It's a nasty winprinter with binary-only RPM drivers that are a grade A pain in the ass to get working. It only speaks CUPS. Hrm. I guess I know enough to start googling, but I'm in the middle of doing some open source developer type stuff at the moment, and I'm hoping someone will take pity on me and toss me a solution with a big bow tie on it. I'll have enough trouble just getting these damn Lexmark drivers working on the other computer. It ate a whole afternoon the last time. (Though with some judicious copying, maybe I can just move the installation without breaking it.) Thanks. -- Michael McIntyre ---- Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/ http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutorial/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
