Glen Davison on wrote...
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| Dear LPRng Gurus,
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| I understand that LPRng's lpr (as distributed on RedHat 7.x) should be able
| to send jobs directly to a remote server without needing lpd running locally.
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Even better you can set it to know which machine to gat the printer list
from. Of course you can also create a personal printcap file too.
Example Setup Proceedure for redhat systems....
+ first insure LPRng is installed on the machine.
+ shutdown the lpd server (it isn't needed)
service lpd stop
chkconfig lpd off
+ move the "/etc/lpd.conf" to "/etc/lpd.conf.orig"
+ create a new "/etc/lpd.conf" with the lines...
default_remote_host=lprhost.serving.printers
default_printer=prt
force_localhost@
Set "lprhost.serving.printers" to your LPRng server
Replace the "prt" with your machine default printer. EG: "s1l2"
Now if you use
lpq -Pall
You will get a list of all the printers available from your lprhost.
and you don't have to speficy the "@lprhost" for those printers either!
You also can define your system default of your users, which of course
they can override with the "PRINTER" environment variable.
No local spool or printcap needed! Any printers added on the lprhost
will automatically be available without further changes.
As an administrator love this about LPRng, everything is on one host!
And you don't need to be on that host to do basic administration!
Anthony Thyssen ( System Programmer ) http://www.sct.gu.edu.au/~anthony/
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