On Wednesday 07 January 2009 14:20:24 BRM wrote: > From what I can see in this new thread this year, you just need to do the > couple steps to make your Workstations work as CUPS Clients by > configuring it as a client and then it should work.
Of course it should. It does not. I simply cannot find the necessary invocations and USE flags etc. No matter what I try I cannot get printing to work over the network. I always get a succession of success messages from cups, followed by "printer does not exist" when I try to print a test page. That's a pretty strange definition of success in anybody's book. Even a straightforward postscript laser cannot be made to work now. I'm going to give it up altogether as a lost cause. Every machine on the network will have to have the printers set up locally, and be carried to where the printers are whenever a print job is needed. This is one giant black mark for Linux, the ultimate networking OS. I've been using Linux on-and-off for about 15 years, but I'm seriously considering the future of it in this house. Thanks for trying to help. -- Rgds Peter
