On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
> Again if to make it work, my PC should be able to access that printr as
> remote printer. That's not happening.....
if the printer is being controlled by a host running an lpd daemon, then
there shouldnt be any problem. Just put your pc's ip in the host's
/etc/hosts.lpd and rest you can configure with rhs-printtools. You can
choose the postscript filter.
OTOH if the printer is standalone as you said, this should work. Get nc
installed ( if its not there already ) and then send the postscript
directly through nc, to this printer's IP. You have to know which port it
listens to. ( might be the std lpd port, 512 isnt it ).
After direct sending works, make an entry in your /etc/printcap for a new
spool directory. write a two liner as a filter which justs pipes the stdin
to netcat (nc). Now you should be able to use normal lpr to do the job.
I assume you must have tried the normal printtools->remote_unix_printer
thing.
-- sreangsu
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