FC3 as a printserver

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Sun Jan 9 11:51:18 UTC 2005


On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 13:37 +0200, bengt.lindholm at salnet.fi wrote:
> The FC3-printserver has cups and the RH9-box sending jobs to be printed has LPD (no cups because of special needs; filters etc.). There are no machines with Windows. Everything worked as long as the FC3-printserver-box was still a RH9-printserver-box (no alterations at the sending RH9-end) 
> 
> I did system-configure-securitylevel to open ports 515 tcp and udp at the FC3's end (and /etc/sysconfig/iptables shows them to be open), the printer is shared for all and accepting cupslpd so FC3 should now accept the jobs? But no, even "lpr -P <printer's name> job-to-be-printed" did not work.
> 
> That is why I am now trying the SAMBA-way. Any hints?
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don't know if you have been through this or not...

on FC-3

system-config-printer
select the printer
'edit' the printer
'tab' printer driver
'button' "Sharing"
'tab' Queue - checkbox - this queue is available to other computers
'tab' General - checkbox - Enable LPD Protocol

Craig




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