Sid Boyce wrote:
I had an unexplained problem with cups, it looked like it was the HP DeskJet 840C or USB cable after I changed to LPRng and had the same problem. I would like to stick with LPRng as cups didn't seem to gel with the printers at work running under Windoze and in the distant past they worked fine with Berkeley LPD. My problem here at home --- I have LPRng on both the home box and the laptop and I can print with "lpr -Plp@remote_box file". Any idea what the laptop should have in /etc/printcap? I've read the SuSE 9.0 manual and the HOWTO's -- many words, but as clear as mud, they mention lots of complicated setups, but not a simple example like I need, I've tried all sorts in /etc/printcap (local if filter used), but it keeps bleeting about sending the job to lp@localhost, connection refused, any printer commands that specifies -Plp@remote_box work, the SuSE book says to get apps to do it that wasy - perhaps they are similarly puzzled, there must be a way, YaST seemed confused. RedHat has printtool which is excellent, I may try it on SuSE if I can't otherwise find a fix. Regards Sid. Fixed it in 2 minutes, spent over 2 hours the other night and got nowhere .....
lp:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\ :mx#0:\ :sh:\ :rm=barrabas:\ :rp=lp:\ :if=/usr/lib/lpdfilter/bin/if Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer Linux Only Shop.