> LINK WORLD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > 4. Remote printing needed changes in several 'host' files to get it of
> > the ground.
How do you want to do remote printing. For me it is no problem. When I
have the CUPS daemon running on all printer servers and on all clients
which should use the printers on the server (tested in case of all
machines being Mandrake 7.1, 7.2beta) I nedd to do nothing more than
configuring every printer on only one server. The CUPS daemon broadcasts
the information from the server to all the clients. So on the clients
nothing has to be configured. It is enough when the CUPS daemon is
running. Alternatively you can set the name of one of the servers into
the /etc/cups/cupsd.conf (see comments inside) and you do not need a
CUPS daemon running on that client, but CUPS must be installed.
If the server uses LPD, set up a remote LPD printer on one of your
machines running the CUPS daemon (LPD backend in KUPS or "lpadmin -p
remlpd -E -v lpd://<machine>/<queue> -m <PPD file>" where <machine> is
the name of the server, <queue> is the name of the LPD queue on the
server).
If the server runs Windows NT or 2000, install the samba and
samba-client packages (the SMB daemon does not need to be started) and
restart the CUPS daemon afterwards. Start kups and choose SMB as
backend. The rest is click and play.
I didn't need to change any "host" files. Which "host" files did you
modify and how. What happened when you didn't do it. Which versions of
the packages are you using (update from the Cooker and try again
perhaps). Which security level are you using.
Till
