At 09:42 PM 6/8/00 -0400, Miroslav Skoric wrote [in part]:
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>Another thing regarding printers: on the other linux-based box (where I
>have reported problems regarding GUI's) I want configure it to become
>something like a 'print server' where my clients in the network could
>use a printer connected to the linux box as a 'network printer'. It is
>working under NT without problems. Now I think that I asked for an
>option 'print server on at startup' during the installation of RedHat
>6.1 (well maybe it was a Caldera one, but doesn't matter - it didn't
>work anyway) so in any case if I missed it, is there a way to add it
>now? Any suggestion? The printer is HP LJ 4 Plus.
This is fairly easy to do in general under Linux, and I doubt that Caldera
or Red Hat make it too hard. First, find your HP manuals; the LJ4 is unusual
in that HP actually explains how to connect it to a Unix system (the needed
/etc/printcap entries). Very helpful.
You need to install the lpr or lprNG package. Either will include an lpr
program, the associated lpd daemon, and a few utilities. Set up an init
script to start lpd, and it will both read the printcap file, to learn the
printer capabilities, and listen on port 515 for remote requests (the server
you want to run). If you want a print server for Windows clients, you'll
also need to run the print-server component of Samba.
There is a Printing HowTo
(http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Printing-HOWTO.html) that does a pretty good
job of filling in the details I've glossed over, plus covers more complex
topics like how to print Postscript to non-PS printers.
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Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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