Re: Server Printing Help

["Mike Nicholas" <nicholas@xxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message -----
From: <awilliam@whitemice.org>
To: <klug@klug.armintl.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 1999 1:40 PM
Subject: Re: Server Printing Help


> >Situation: Linux server and workstations running Xserver and trying
> to print to a Novell Netware 4.x Hp LJ5 printer.
> >Question #1: How do I install and configure the Linux RH 5.2 on the
> server  to recognize the Novell Network/printer?
> >I assume I need to install a driver, what is meant by the print
> server name...is it the jet direct card IP address -or- the >name of
> the Netware server that controls the printer?  Also, what is meant by
> queue name?...am I creating a Linux >queue on the Linux server -or- am
> I entering the Novell server queue name?
>
> You need to create a queue on the Linux server
How?  Can you be more specific?

>, and have all the Linux workstations send to the queue.
Again, how specifically?

>  Then have the Linux Server forward it
> to the printer.
How?

>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?
>
> 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?

>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?


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 :)

Mike