This is a cross-post.
I've set up a local network of 2 1/2 machines (well one is only half
working til I find some monitor specs <grin>), and I have no trouble
transferring data and using a common dialup connection.
My problem is getting printing to work.
I can print from any of the machines if a printer is physically
connected to the parallel port - that's easy. What I haven't been able
to do is print across the network.
Cups has an amazing amount of documentation but for the life of me I
cannot work out what I need to configure where.
Three machines running LM8 and Cups 1.1.7,
3 printers (HP Laserjet 4p, HP Deskjet 500, 15" Epson Dotmatrix)
M/c #1 IP = 192.168.0.1, called Tom.localhost.localdomain (HP4P)
M/c #2 IP = 192.168.0.2, called Dick.localhost.localdomain (DJ500)
M/c #3 IP = 192.168.0.3, called Harry.localhost.localdomain (Epson)
Reading the various parts of the Cups documentation seems to keep coming
back to implementations where the printers are individually addressed by
unique IP and MAC addresses, which to me suggests that each printer has
networking hardware built in, and that's certainly not the case here.
Can someome point me to a HOWTO or webpage with a step by step process
for doing this?
Cheers
John
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"The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected"
(The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.)
