Hi Joel, a) you're right, because the graphical thingees and particularly the SETUP provided with apsfilter have always worked OK, I have never taken the time to set up the printers manually. Being lazy by nature, I did not want to build any "hand made" configurations into my system, that would be lost or become unworkable with the next system upgrade, so I relied on supplied system management tools to do the bitsy work.
b) I will work through the web site you mentioned; this is EXACTLY what I was looking for!!! Many thanks!! c) The printcap entries don't make sense to me either. That's why I contacted the mailing list! To me it would be more sensible to get the individual "filter" printers to print to the "lp@barricade" printer, which is the remote port to which the printer is physically attached. I was put off this my the "how to" from plp, which stated that the lpd daemon had a problem with several printers printing to a single device: that the device was somehow in an "exclusive" state, and that a funnel queue was required. That doesn't really make sense to me: this funnel queue could just as easily have an exclusive lock problem. d) The entries you have highlighted with comments I will reply to in a separate mail. Many thanks!!! Helmut Joel Hammer schrieb: > BTW, I have never gotten any grapical thingee to properly > configure > network printing for me. There are just too many > variables. That is why > I know much more about network printing than say network > file sharing or > remote X sessions. > Joel > > > -------------------------------------------------------- > --------------------- > YOU MUST BE A LIST MEMBER IN ORDER TO POST TO THE LPRNG > MAILING LIST > The address you post from MUST be your subscription > address > > If you need help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or > lprng-requests > or lprng-digest-requests) with the word 'help' in the > body. For the impatient, > to subscribe to a list with name LIST, send mail to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with: | example: > subscribe LIST <mailaddr> | subscribe lprng-digest > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > unsubscribe LIST <mailaddr> | unsubscribe lprng > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > If you have major problems, send email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word > LPRNGLIST in the SUBJECT line. > -------------------------------------------------------- > --------------------- > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- YOU MUST BE A LIST MEMBER IN ORDER TO POST TO THE LPRNG MAILING LIST The address you post from MUST be your subscription address If you need help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or lprng-requests or lprng-digest-requests) with the word 'help' in the body. For the impatient, to subscribe to a list with name LIST, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with: | example: subscribe LIST <mailaddr> | subscribe lprng-digest [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe LIST <mailaddr> | unsubscribe lprng [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have major problems, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word LPRNGLIST in the SUBJECT line. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
