Connect the printer to the 7.2 box and install it with printerdrake or kups as a local printer (see http://www.mandrakeuser.org/hardware/hcups2.html). Check whether you have set the options (paper size, resolution, ...) correctly so that you can print from the 7.2 machine. To make the printers accessible from a client which only runs LPD (your 5.3 machine), set up the CUPS-LPD mini daemon which emulates LPD on your server (see http://www.mandrakeuser.org/hardware/hcups4.html#lpdcl). On the client (5.3 machine) you do now the same as you did if the server was a LPD machine. The printer names of the emulated LPD are exactly the same as of CUPS. So if you have given the same name to your printer on the 7.2 system as it had before you installed 7.2, you do not need to change anything in the /etc/printcap of your 5.3 client. Till Gary de Montigny wrote: > > I am running two boxes with Linux Mandrake. One with Mandrake 7.2 and > and old system with with 5.3. I would like to make the 7.2 system my > default printer. What changes do I have to make to the printcap file on > the 5.3 system. Will the cups system have any effect on my setup? > Thanks. >
