Larry Brown, On Friday January 24, 2003 02:52, Larry Brown wrote: > The RH8 lpd system seems to work pretty good. I set up two smb printers > that are connected to a win2k pc on the network. The both print fine. One > is an HP Photosmart 1215 and the other is a PDF distiller. Using the test > mechanism it printed both just fine. Now I'm trying to print from > openoffice and it only offers a generic printer or pdf converter in its own > software. How do I get OpenOffice to recognize the printers already > configured in lpd? The OpenOffice spadmin program lists a group of > printers different than the ones from the lpd system configuration. It > does not show the printers already installed. Please, any help would be > appreciated.
This is a litlle bit unintuitive, but here's how I do it... If you dont remember the "names" of the printers do a #cat /etc/printcap and look for the lines beginning like... Server_HP|lp:\ PDF_print:\ They should be the first line for each entry. Then in the spadmin choose "New Printer" then "add printer" When it asks you for the "Command line appropriate..." enter lpr -P <printername> so for the above mentioned examples it would be... lpr -P PDF_print and lpr -P Server_HP Click next, name the printer and click finish. Test. All should work fine. Hope that helps. -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dee-web.com/ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
