If you have a printer connected to a terminal with LTSP 5 and Debian Etch you will be disappointed. It will not work. If, as me, you used LTSP (<= 4.2) for years with no such problems you can get really mad. Nevertheless I honestly like LTSP & Debian.
I googled around and found that there maybe is a licence problem with the print server application "lp_server". I also found this statement from Vagrant Cascadian: "... as we had to remove lp_server due to unclear copyright licensing ..." (http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-ltsp-devel/2006-November/000462.html). For me it looks like that lp_server is a fork from p910nd (author: Ken Yap, see http://www.etherboot.org/p910nd/), but I am not really sure. There are some debian lp_server packages around but nothing created for etch (so far as I can see). I tried to use cups at the terminal with no success (you need rw access and I want to keep my terminal file system as small as possible). I have to get my printer working as soon as possible. Here is my (very dirty) solution (ONLY for i386 clients): A.) Copy the lp_server file to your client file system. I got the lp_server sources from ltsp.org (via the LTSP 4.2 LBE) and compiled them for i386 (etch - architecture). Do this for yourself or get it here: http://www.jumako.de/transfer/lp_server Copy lp_server to /sbin in your client (!!!) file system (for me it is: /opt/ltsp/i386/sbin/lp_server). If you copy from the above url, you do this on your own risk. I am not responsible for any damage to your computer. B.) Modify start_printer You have to patch the script start_printer (for me it is: /opt/ltsp/i386/usr/lib/ltsp/startprinter). There is a line with ". /etc/ltsp_functions" you have to change this line to ". /usr/lib/ltsp/ltsp_functions" (without quotations marks) C.) Modify ltsp-client-setup You have to enable printing in ltsp-client-setup (for me it is: /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/init.d/ltsp-client-setup). Before the function configure_syslog() { cat <<EOF > /etc/syslog.conf *.* @${SYSLOG_HOST-$SERVER} EOF } paste this 6 lines: configure_printer() { for prn_dev in $(env | awk -F= '$1 ~ /^PRINTER_[0-9]_DEVICE/ { print $1 }'); do prn_no=`echo $prn_dev | cut -f2 -d'_'` /usr/lib/ltsp/start_printer $prn_no & done } And in the same file before the line configure_syslog || true paste this line configure_printer || true I've got this informations from: "https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ltsp/+bug/93863/comments/1"; D.) lts.conf Enable a printer in your lts.conf. For me it looks like that: [XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX] PRINTER_0_DEVICE = /dev/usb/lp0 PRINTER_0_TYPE = U # P-Parallel, S-Serial, U-USB PRINTER_0_PORT = 9100 # tcp/ip port: defaults to 9100 PRINTER_0_WRITE_ONLY = Y Where XX:XX ... is the IP of your workstation. E.) Forgiveness Forgive my ugly patches. Forgive me not to build a debian package. I think that the LTSP and/or the Debian and/or Ubuntu people will find (or have?) a perfect solution. On special demand I will create debian lp_server packages (i386 and/or amd64). -- So long! Jumako ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
