Where's the other printing system?

[Dave Washburn]

On Saturday 24 July 2004 18:05, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am So, den 25.07.2004 schrieb Keith um 1:33:
> > > When I moved to Fedora, I discovered to my chagrin that there was no
> > > LPRng package listed, and the print system switcher only listed CUPS,
> > > which is still giving me the same trouble as before.  So I downloaded a
> > > tarball of LPRng, built and installed it, but it still doesn't show up
> > > as an option for printing systems; the print system switcher still only
> > > shows CUPS.  But CUPS can't find this printer on the (Windows) network,
> > > so I have no print capability.  I'd like to switch the system to LPRng
> > > rather than waste time continuing to fight CUPS.  Can somebody help me
> > > figure out how to accomplish this?
> > >
> > > The printer is a Lexmark Z53 and the machine it's hooked to by USB is
> > > running Windows XP Professional; Samba version is 3.0.3-5.  Feel free
> > > to let me know if any more info is needed.
> >
> > http://groups.google.com/groups?q=LPRng+fedora+lexmark+z33&hl=en&lr=&ie=U
> >TF-8&selm=caet9k01fch%40news2.newsguy.com&rnum=1
>
> Hu? Dave has to only configure CUPS to use the SMB shared printer and
> not erase the whole CUPS system and replace it by LPRng.

Actually, that's the whole problem: I set CUPS to use the SMB shared printer 
and it still can't talk to it.  I'm ready to try anything short of a sledge 
hammer at this point.

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Dave Washburn
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