[Techtalk] Network Printing Help Needed: RH, CUPS, LPD, MacOSX, Oh My!

[Helen Rosseau]

A very straight forward way would be to share them via samba from the machine 
that is physically connected to them.  This is from my machines samba config.  
And this printer shows shared on the windows network as hp5100, after my 
linux box is double clicked from network neighbourhood.

You must restart smb and nmb after you make changes to the smb.conf  file.  On 
my Suse 8.0 box, this is in /etc/samba/smb.conf

[hp5100]
        path = /var/tmp
        read only = No
        create mask = 0600
        guest ok = Yes
        printable = Yes
        printer name = hp5100
        oplocks = No
I hope this helps

Helen


On Friday 31 January 2003 12:27, Beth Johnson wrote:
> Hi there,
> I'm pulling my hair out trying to get this working!  We have several
> iMacs and an eMac all running OSX and my two RedHat 8.0 boxen.  I'm
> using CUPS on my desktop machine to which a HP LaserJet 1100 is attached
> via lp0 (no parallel port on the Macs).  There are Lexmark Printers
> attached to two of the Macs, which I'm ignoring because there aren't
> CUPS drivers for them, and an Epson Stylus which I can print to just
> fine via CUPS from my machine.
>
> Now, the problem is that my Mr wants to print to the Laser from his
> machine (the eMac).  I've tried every way I can think of to set this
> up!  I've tried via CUPS, I've switched to lpd on my machine and tried
> that way, I've tried via SAMBA through CUPS and lpd.  I've tried
> AppleTalk (running atalk on my box).  Documents will usually spool and
> time out.  Or his machine complains about not connecting.
>
> Frankly, the whole thing is a frickin' mess.  In CUPS all the machines
> are reporting all the printers they have, even their remote printers,
> which leads to redundency.  The Macs are reporting device URIs for their
> local Print Center printers as /dev/null, which isn't going to get me
> anywhere!  I can't even print from one RH box to another.
>
> I mean, all these machines are using the Same Print System!!!  Why can't
> I get them to talk using CUPS?  Or any protocol?
>
> I can't see the forest for the trees.  Can anyone suggest a point for me
> to fall back to?  rpm -e cups*  ???  %-(
>
> going to ride the exercise bike now and play Animal Crossing (ah,
> wireless controller),
> Beth

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H Rosseau
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