Ok, i've got the identical setup at home and it was a no brainer using
RedHat's pritttool. All you do is check the box for printing to a remote
SMB printer. Then imput the ip address, share name and any
username/password that is needed. Then select the proper printer (or a
campatible one) from the list it gives.
Here is my printcap entry:
[rick@local1 ~]$ more /etc/printcap
#
# Please don't edit this file directly unless you know what you are doing!
# Be warned that the control-panel printtool requires a very strict
format!
# Look at the printcap(5) man page for more info.
#
# This file can be edited with the printtool in the control-panel.
##PRINTTOOL3## SMB cdj550 300x300 letter {} DeskJet550 3 1
lp:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:\
:lp=/dev/null:\
:af=/var/spool/lpd/lp/acct\
:if=/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter:
The file that tells it where to print is /var/spool/lpd/lp/.config:
[rick@local1 /etc]$ more /var/spool/lpd/lp/.config
share='\\local2\HP'
hostip=192.168.0.15
user=''
password=''
workgroup='LAN'
Unless i'm mistaken, Beth is having problems running printtool itself. If
that is the case, please post the exact errors that are coming up and i'l
see if I can help.
-Rick
On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Brian Lavender wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 01:28:16AM -0800, Daniel de Young wrote:
> > Sounds like a case of PAM authentication (but I'm still learning :-)
> >
> > If your using 'sudo' then try just a regular 'su' session.
> >
> > sometimes I have to type xhost +localhost to run RedHat admin tools from
> > an su'd terminal window. try...
> >
> > $> xhost +localhost; /usr/bin/printtool &
> >
> > also try using /usr/bin/control-panel as this will launch printool.
> >
> > I hope you get it running because I've had awesome luck getting windows
> > shared printers working with the samba package :-) I'm currently using
> > an HP 2000c that sits on an NT trusted multi domain environment at work
> > and it works perfectly (after a little tweaking!).
>
> So you were able to configure remote printing to a printer attached to an NT
> machine on your network? You used the Red Hat print configuration tool to
> do this? What does your printcap look like? Can you post a copy to the list?
>
> I have a printer which prints directly to an HP Laserjet 5si which has a
> Jet Direct card, but it acts just like a BSD LPR deamon. I think Beth's
> printer is connected directly to her windows machine through a paralell
> cable. I would be curious to see your setup especially if it is using
> samba as a client.
>
> And of course I might have to take a look at Red Hat again.
>
> brian
>
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