Have you tried setting the printers up with kups?
That makes it super easy.
Configuration->Printers->Kups
--- John Rye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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
> --
> "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10,
> with more expected"
> (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition,
> June 1972.)
>
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