Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2114 mails)

["Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)" <hylton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ken Schneider wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-09-01 at 14:41 +0200, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
>> Andre Truter wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>> Hi Andre,
>>
>>> I have a ltsp server and a thin client that works.
>>> Now I need to connect a USB printer to the client and make that work.
>>> I have googled and followed the documentation, and different variations
>>> of it, but I cannot get it to work.
>> <snip>
>>
>> Could printer/device usage possibly be permission based, as so much else
>> is on Linux?
>>
>> I don't have the solution but hope this helps.
>>
>> I would think that if you installed the printer as a local printer on
>> the client and then made sure its print queue has 777 permissions.
>>
>> Then install a network printer on the LTSP box and point it to the
>> printer on the client.
> 
> Isn't the LTSP about running apps from the "Server". Doesn't a client
> (in this configuration) boot _from_ the server and thereby _not_ even
> require/have a harddrive? That being the case there would not be
> anywhere to install the printer on the "client". As I recall the OP even
> stated that the printer was on port 9100 which would imply that the
> printer was on a JetDirect device and make it a network printer in which
> case the printer can be located anywhere, even next to the client
> machine.

What is implied and what actually is are two different things. These
days I doubt a PC manufacturer, here in SA, would let a box out of their
store without a HDD. The OP needs to let us know.

I do not know about JetDirect devices but if it was a network printer it
should surely be able to be installed on the LTSP server and shared for
its users?

Hylton
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