If the printer is not accessible directly (i.e: not a network-ready printer), then the printer will have to be connected to another machine. In that case, in the section for "name of printer on server" you will have to specify the name of the printer as in the remote machine's /etc/printcap file. Regards, Kenneth Tan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ C. J. Kenneth Tan E-mail: cjtan@acm.org Telephone: 1-403-220-8038 cjtan@ieee.org 1-403-606-4257 cjtan@computer.org Facsimile: 1-403-284-1980 URL: <A HREF="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/~tanc"><A HREF="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/~tanc</A">http://www.cuug.ab.ca/~tanc</A</A>> 1-403-244-4123 "A working program without comment is a time bomb waiting to explode." -- Steve Oualline ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, phillip mannie wrote:
Use the IP address (nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn) of the printer's network interface for the server name (question 3 in YaST). I suppose you could use the host name (foo.domain.name) if you have some way to resolve it to an IP address (a local DNS or hosts file), but I just use the IP address.
Name of printer refers to what you want to call the printer (in an lpr command, for example, lpr -Pname_of_printer) and what you want to name the spool directory. The name of the printer on the server assumes that the print server is a host computer and the printer is a named resource upon that host.
My setup of a HPLJ4000N (with JetDirect card) looks like this:
Name of printer: ops-hp (this is what I want to call it) Spool directory: /var/[whatever]/ops-hp (filled in automatically) Server name: 192.168.0.150 Name of printer on server: ops-hp (doesn't much matter...)
I print to it with the command:
$ lpr -Pops-hp [file_to_print]
phil -- "The engineers saw that thick green run-off as sludge and were throwing out out; I saw it as filling and made "key lime-style" pies."
Ramin Sina wrote:
Hi all,
I have a really dum question about YAST configuration of network printing. Suppose there is a printer with an IP address foo.domain.name. In administerating remote printers, YAST asks to fill in four entries:
1) Name of the printer 2) Spool directory (This is filled automatically) 3) Server name 4) Name of printer on the server
I am not sure what it is exactly meant here by server name and the printer name. The printer has its own IP address. Can someone shed light on this for me.
Thanks, Ramin Sina
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