Hello Kristian,
It looks like you haven't specified how to find the remote printers
on the other three machines. In /etc/printcap you should have an entry
such as this;
rljet|Remote Laser Printer:\
:lp=:\
:rm=printbox:\
:rp=ljet:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/ljet:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:
for each of the three machines. You could have more or less in each
entry but the important line is;
:rm=<NAME OF YOUR PRINTSER HERE>:\
As you can see my printserver is named "printbox" (really original huh?)
Be sure and run the command "lpc reread" after you modify /etc/printcap
so the print server sees the new configuration information.
This works great for me.
Regards,
T. Tilton
Kristian Rink wrote:
>
> Hello everybody...
>
> ...facing the fact that a friendly guy provided me with quite some nice laser
> printer (Brother HL-1240) to fit into my small LAN, I am now more or less for
> the first time dealing with the issues of network printing.
> How things are:
> 'Server': 486DX-40 box running potato and lprng, installed and configured the
> system through magicfilter to use the ljet2p driver, and the printer works
> fine this way.
> Clients: Three different machines in the local network running potato and
> Mandrake 7.1, their names (known to the server's /etc/hosts) are entered into
> /etc/hosts.equiv, and in the local /etc/printcap 's, the remote printer queue
> is set up & ready to run. Trying to do 'any' print-out to the remote printer
> ends up with - nothing. No error message, no message in any of the servers
> log files, no jobs in the printer queue, no print.
> Can anyone give me a hint what I might have missed in my configuration to get
> this thing done? :))
>
> Thanks in advance, have a fine sunday everybody... :)
>
> Regards,
> Kristian
>
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