You're right about the unintuitive and you are right about the settings. Thank you very much. If you know the secret, it's quite easy.
Larry S. Brown Dimension Networks, Inc. (727) 723-8388 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Brian Ashe Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 4:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Printing from openoffice 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 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
