Re: Server Printing Help

[awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

>> You need to create a queue on the Linux server
> How?  Can you be more specific?

Control Panel, Printers, Add queue.

>>If printer is a JetDirect that supports IP how to
>> setup the queue on the Linux server is in the Printing-HOWTO,  it is
>> quite simple.
> OK...is this the "howto" identified as printing over a network 11.3 to 
a
> netware printer?
>>If the JetDirect only speaks IPX then you have a much
>> greater task on your hands.  The printer server name in the
>> control-panel on the Linux server would be the IP address of the Jet
>> Direct Card.
>>>Question #2:  How do I configure the Xserver workstations to print 
to
>>this Linux server and "remote" Novell print >server & printer?

I suspect were mixing terms here.  You keep mentioning Novell, and I 
don't see any mention of a Novell server. You have a Jet Direct card,  
but that has nothing to do with Netware/IPX.

>> You should be able to set it up in control-panel if this is a RedHat
>> machine.
> Sorry...we are using Win95 O/S and Xserver to access Linux RH server.  
Any
> other ideas here?

If your running an X app on the RH box,  then the app server is the 
only place you need a print queue, unless your going to print from 
Win32 apps as well. If the later case is true you need Samba 
(www.samba.org),  and that is a different topic.

> >Set the remote server to the Linux server and the queue name
> > to the name of the queue you created on the Linux server.
> How?

If your clients are Win95 boxes this doesn't apply.  Typically for a 
Linux network each client has a "mirror" copy of the print queues on 
the print server,  and send jobs to the corresponding queue on the 
print server,  the print server then queue's them and sends them out 
to whatever printer attached via whatever medium (RS-232, LPD, SMB, 
etc...) it needs too.  Having more than one machine queueing to a 
network attached printer is a BAD idea,  management, accounting, and 
troubleshooting become exponentially more difficult,  and I've seen 
Jet Direct cards crash frequently in enviroments that do that.


> I have set up the following:
> Name: lp0
> Spool Dir: /var/spool/lpd/lp0
> Printer Server Name:  206.150.7.22 (jet direct card)
> Print Queue Name: /etc/pque
> Input Filter: *auto* LaserJet4
> I can print via test ASCII direct and local w/o problems to the 
printer
> (after I remembered to start lpd).  The above references to "simple" 
and
> "easy" don't seem to apply here :)

Well, a Jet Direct just works the way it does,  I personally don't 
like them much,  but they work (mostly).  I've never seen one use a 
queue name like "/etc/pque",  it is "raw" on all the cards I have ever 
worked with.  So this does let you print to the printer from the Linux 
server? (I'm not sure what direct and local mean here).  You need to 
make VERY sure your Jet Direct card has the latest firmware release,  
but that's another topic.