[K12OSN] local parallel printer

Jim McQuillan jam at mcquil.com
Thu Oct 5 22:28:24 UTC 2006


Ray,

That problem was fixed in July, as part of update-2.

I'll update the wiki page.

Thanks
Jim.


On Thu, October 5, 2006 6:08 pm, Ray Garza wrote:
> On Thursday 05 October 2006 16:38, Jim McQuillan wrote:
>> On Thu, October 5, 2006 4:09 pm, Ray Garza wrote:
>> > According to the LTSP Wiki pages, LTSP 4.2 does not support a parallel
>> > port
>> > printer on the client pc (due to a bug), is this still the case?
>>
>> Parallel printers work just fine.
>>
>> Which page says there's a problem?
>>
> Hello Jim,
>
> I found here at:
> http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/Printers
>
> In the first section,
>
> "Note that, until further notice, a bug exists under LTSP 4.2, that
> interferes
> with the parallel interface. Under 4.2, the parallel interface will not
> work.
> Fortuitously, many current day printers also support the USB interface.
> Serial and USB interfaces are unaffected by this bug.
>
> -- For a lot of people the simple act of add "PRINTER_0_WRITE_ONLY = Y" in
> lts.conf solved the problem "
>
> Hmm, I just now noticed the title of the page " Printers attached to LTSP
> workstations".  Does that apply to any PC used as a client or just the
> thin
> clients from Disklessworkstation.com?
>
> --
> Ray Garza
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> (956) 580-8757
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