[PLUG] CUPS and printing to a remote server

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Thu Jan 9 06:20:02 UTC 2003


On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Phil Tomson wrote:

> I've got a print-server machine running lprng.  My laptop is setup with
> CUPS and sends jobs to the print-server machine without problem... but I
> recently loaded Mandrake 9 on my wife's box and setup CUPS on that machine
> to also sent printjobs to the print-server, but it doesn't work.  I've got
> CUPS configured identially as it is on the laptop which can print, but
> nothing.  It seems like the jobs aren't making it to the printserver.
> 
> Any ideas on how to debug this?

Phil,

  Are /etc/printcap the same on both portables? I assume that both clients
define the printer as remote and use the IPP syntax for identifying the
server, so other than different printer names in /etc/printcap, I've no
ideas rght now.

Rich





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