Hello, and thanks for your reply.
I updated ports 2 days ago (following stable branch mind you). There is
no cups in it. Since I am a newbie I can only guess, that the ports to
which you are referring would be in the *current* branch. The docs
warn me away from mixing my branches. I chose the stable, so I better
stick with it.
I am battling with OO right now... If that doesn't work, there will be
nothing to print :0). When I have overcome that hurdle, I can try your
advice in my printcap.
Thank you.
Chris
umaxx wrote:
It appears that OBSD developers are down on CUPS (I do not see it in
ports or in the binaries).
where did you look?
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/print/cups/
cups is in current ports-tree (afaik in snapshots too).
From my web searching, it looks like this is because it is viewed
as being less secure/stable. I must admit, I have been seduced by
cups because of the added functionality and ease of use-- and my
users certainly get a lot out of it as well. However, I want to be
able to do things the "OBSD way", so, if there is no CUPS on OBSD,
then I will go back to lpd.
My Problem: My printers are hooked up via parallel port and usb to
Linux boxes (which use cups). Networking IPP from a cups machine to
a cups machine is a snap, but what do I do with this OBSD laptop
that does not use cups? What is the best way to get it to print to
these printers? I am trying to go with gnome on this laptop, and I
was going to put OpenOffice on it (if this makes a difference at
all. I have not used gnome since 1.4, so I figure I will give it
another shot.) I am following the stable branch of OBSD 3.6, and
installed gnome using pkg_add.
How do I print to my printers that are attached to Linux/CUPS
machines? Any advice?
if you want to use classic lpd you can try something like this on your
clients:
$ cat /etc/printcap # $OpenBSD:
printcap,v 1.4 2003/03/28 21:32:30 jmc Exp $
#lp|local line printer:\
# :lp=/dev/lp:sd=/var/spool/output:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:
lp|remote line printer:\
:lp=:rm=<server-ip>:rp=lp:sd=/var/spool/output:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:
greets umaxx
