Where's the other printing system?

[Dave Washburn]

On Saturday 24 July 2004 18:38, Keith wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-07-24 at 17:05, 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
> > >=UTF-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.
>
> Dave said he wants to revert FC2 to use LPRng aand that is the method
> to uninstall CUPS and use LPRng.

I did it all, including removing some other CUPS rpm's (devel, lib and such) 
and now I'm really screwed.  The Lexmark driver for the Z53 is an rpm file, 
not a tarball, and LPRng can't find it.  To further complicate matters, it 
appears that this driver ONLY works with a local printer, not a networked 
one, and for !@#$ sure not a Samba-networked one.  To make things even more 
fun, a lot of other programs are now fuming because one of the cups-lib files 
is missing.  This is more fun than putting my whatchamacallits through a 
wringer...barely.

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Dave Washburn
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