Re: Server Printing Help

["Mike Nicholas" <nicholas@xxxxxxxxx>]

Also...last minute question:

Will I need to install the Novell client for Linux [NCPFS.TGZ] on the Win95
Xwindows boxes?


----- 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, and have all the Linux
> workstations send to the queue.  Then have the Linux Server forward it
> to the printer.  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.  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.  Set the remote server to the Linux server and the queue name
> to the name of the queue you created on the Linux server.
>
> >Questions #3:  Much unrelated (but coming up)...I have DHCP and the
> name resolution is performed by my ISP >(Iserv). How do I setup some
> type of DNS so that users can see the internet without having to know
> and enter the IP >address of a site.  Example:  If I want to go to
> webwatcher.org, without a DNS I would have to know the IP address >to
> go to this site.  Is there some special program that I must run to
> perform this function or resolution?
>
> There are caching nameserver RPM's on the Red Hat CD's.  Set up a name
> server on your Linux server and tell the workstations in
> /etc/resolv.conf to use that server to look up names.
>
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