On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Rajesh Fowkar wrote:
> >Rajesh Fowkar rearranged electrons thusly:
> >
> >> We want to print to a local printer bypassing the spooler. How this
> >> can be done under Linux ?
> >
> >you can config multiple lpds - lpd1, lpd2 --> remote spooler etc etc
> >
> No Suresh. I will make myself clear. We have only one
> printer on the server. That is working fine. Now we have got
> some dumb terminals to which we can connect a printer. We
> have got a printer connected to the dumb terminals. Now if I
> send printing from Dumb terminal it goes to the server
> printer (spool), how can I print to the local printer
> connected to dumb terminal.
>
Rajesh,
Your printcap ( i.e. /etc/printcap) has an entry that is pointing to the
printer on the server. Either you add another entry pointing to the
printer on the Dumb Terminal or replace the entry for the printer on the
server with the printer on the Dumb terminal. SO in the first case you
end up with two entries, one for the server printer ( lpd ) and the other
for your local printer (lpd1 ) and in the second case you end up with only
one entry and that is for your local printer (lpd ).
HTH
Regards
Carter
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