[Cooker] Remote Printing

[Ron Stodden]

Till,

I have cups-1.1.4-5.1 installed on Mandrake 7.2 from MandrakeUpdates.

Try as I may, I cannot get remote printing to show any sign of
working.   I give up.

I have two PCs on a LAN, called big and small, with big having a HP
Deskjet 970Cxi installed by cups.  

Cups is installed on both machines, daemons running.

Cups must be the most stupid-bug-ridden and unresponsive (errors
suppressed) software I have ever encountered in my 36 years in this
field.For example, why when I try to set up a new remote printer
on my non-printer machine does it instead create a non-existent
remote printer on my printer-equipped machine?

Please tell me step by step on my small machine how to get cups to
print on the printer attached to the big machine.  This simple and
obvious subject is NOT covered in either of the manuals, would you
believe?

Step by step, simply, please.  Every action.

-- 
Regards,

Ron. [AU]

[Cooker] Remote printing, also having problems!

[cptkidd]

I have 2 linux boxes, both on a "localdomain" or local area network
(localhost1 and localhost2).  Trying to print from localhost2 to
localhost1.  localhost1 has a fully functioning printer attached!

If i print from localhost2 to localhost1 using smb when localhost1 is
running win98 o/s, i think it has periodically worked, but am not too
worried about this since i usually spend more time in linux.  (win98 is
for games, lol)

Below is what the DrakConf  printtool configured to do.  My printer
quene on localhost1 is at defaults, just clicked enter when configuring
the names for it in DrakConf on localhost1.

##This is my localhost2 /etc/printcap file
##PRINTTOOL3##  REMOTE ljet2p 300x300 letter {} LaserJet2p Default 1
lp:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:\
:rm=localhost1:\
:rp=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
:if=/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter:

##This is localhost1 /etc/printcap file!
##PRINTTOOL3##  LOCAL ljet2p 300x300 letter {} LaserJet2p Default 1
lp:\
 :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
 :mx#0:\
 :sh:\
 :lp=/dev/lp0:\
 :if=/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter:

ERROR MESSAGE WHEN using DrakConf to setup the remote printer:

Test page(s) have been sent to the printer daemon.
This may take a little time before printer start.
Printing status:
localhost2: waiting for queue to be enabled on localhost1
localhost1: lpd: lp: Your host does not have line printer access

In theory, this should work w/o a problem when printing from
linux-linux.same distro's, versions, etc.  btw: the localdomain is
set on a ethernetwork which is fully functional

Re: [Cooker] Remote printing, also having problems!

[cptkidd]

k' took a little fiddling, but here's what i did:

1) created an /etc/hosts.equiv file to including "localhost2"

2) deleted /etc/printcap

3) reran the DrakConf or printtool.


i did #1, #3 but it still didn't work.  think there was a mess of junk in
the printcap or just the fact that it was already configured in some areas
that it didn't work after a #1 and #3.  so after doing #2 also, it finally
works.

somewhat of a pain to get to linux boxes to see a printer on a localdomain
eh?

cptkidd wrote:

 I have 2 linux boxes, both on a "localdomain" or local area network
 (localhost1 and localhost2).  Trying to print from localhost2 to
 localhost1.  localhost1 has a fully functioning printer attached!

 If i print from localhost2 to localhost1 using smb when localhost1 is
 running win98 o/s, i think it has periodically worked, but am not too
 worried about this since i usually spend more time in linux.  (win98 is
 for games, lol)

 Below is what the DrakConf  printtool configured to do.  My printer
 quene on localhost1 is at defaults, just clicked enter when configuring
 the names for it in DrakConf on localhost1.

 ##This is my localhost2 /etc/printcap file
 ##PRINTTOOL3##  REMOTE ljet2p 300x300 letter {} LaserJet2p Default 1
 lp:\
 :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
 :mx#0:\
 :sh:\
 :rm=localhost1:\
 :rp=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
 :if=/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter:

 ##This is localhost1 /etc/printcap file!
 ##PRINTTOOL3##  LOCAL ljet2p 300x300 letter {} LaserJet2p Default 1
 lp:\
  :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
  :mx#0:\
  :sh:\
  :lp=/dev/lp0:\
  :if=/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter:

 ERROR MESSAGE WHEN using DrakConf to setup the remote printer:

 Test page(s) have been sent to the printer daemon.
 This may take a little time before printer start.
 Printing status:
 localhost2: waiting for queue to be enabled on localhost1
 localhost1: lpd: lp: Your host does not have line printer access

 In theory, this should work w/o a problem when printing from
 linux-linux.same distro's, versions, etc.  btw: the localdomain is
 set on a ethernetwork which is fully functional