configuring remote printer

[Michael Hennebry]

On Fri, 6 May 2005 akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:

> On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 04:40:24PM -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> >
> > How do I configure a remote printer using CUPS.
> > On another machine running RH9 with CUPS,
> > it has the device URI socket://fred.greg.hank.ivan.edu:9100/
> >
> > --
> It is pretty simple. Use system-config-printer
> enter the printers name.
> Choose LPD printing, which is really cups-lpd printing.
> The server is the name of your RH9 machine,
> The spool name is the name of the spool file on your RH9 machine.
> The printer type depends on what kind of printer you have. Since you
> are using port 9100 I assume it is a HP printer with jet-direct.
> The best choice is to choose postscript as your printer (assuming it
> is a postscript printer) not the actual manufacturer and printer
> model. Apply this and you should be all set.

My problem turned out to be that having
configured the printer wrong once,
actual printing was disabled.
Naturally, the GUI provided no clue to this behaviour.
'Twas discovered by editing a *.conf file,
per a googled-to suggestion that that was the easiest way to handle CUPS.

The ranter was quite right about the CUPS GUI.

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Mike   hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu
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