Norm Jacobs wrote: > > Bill Shannon wrote: >> (I'm running snv_98.) >> >> While working on a printing problem, I decided to use the Print Manager >> to configure the printer. >> >> I was surprised to see the old Solaris Print Manager instead of the >> CUPS print manager that I see on Ubuntu. >> >> I saw the message from Norm earlier today describing the print-service >> command to switch between lp and cups print services. Shouldn't there >> be a GUI to go along with that? > The intention is that you pick a print service and use it, so we didn't > bother putting together a GUI to toggle back and forth.
When did I pick? How did I make that first choice? How did I even discover that there was a choice to be made? If this is all transitional until we switch to CUPS, I guess I won't worry about it. > We are planning to move to CUPS, but want to integrate support for > various Solaris features before we dump LP. Like what? >> When I use Print Manager to add a new network printer using the BSD >> protocol, I get a printers.conf entry that looks like: >> >> lp2:\ >> :printer-uri-supported=ipp\://nissan2/printers/lp2:\ >> :bsdaddr=nissan2,lp2,Solaris: >> >> where "nissan2" is the machine on which I ran Print Manager, not the >> name of the remote machine that I entered in the dialog. >> >> This just seems completely broken. Is this a known problem? >> > If you added a "New Network Printer" in the Solaris Print Manager, it > would create a local print queue and you would see the local hostname as > the server name in the printers.conf data. If you "Add Access to > Printer", it should point to a remote print server in the printers.conf > data. I don't understand. Does "new network printer" really mean "new local printer that can be accessed by other machines over the network"? I thought I would add a new local printer and then manage access to it.
