| jammer 2007-11-28, 1:25 pm |
| On Nov 27, 5:51 pm, Doug Freyburger <dfrey...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> jammer <jamesloc...@mail.com> wrote:
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> Does it have a JetDirect card? If so look for a downloadable
> package for "hpnpl". The card uses a specific port and that
> package is for JetDirect support.
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>
> You'll need to install the print packages on all the ones you want
> to print from. But first things first - Get the queue running on the
> first host then point at the others to it.
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> If xxx is the IP number of the printer then you need to dig out the
> man pages for that printer and look for lpr or BSD or Berkeley style
> printing. Plenty of printer types support it directly if you know the
> queue names they use. The names tend to be like "Text" or
> "PostScript" but they also tend to be case sensitive.
>
> If you have admintool and a GUI environment set up you might want
> to use it to create the queue on the first host, then a much simpler
> lpadmin command on all the other hosts to point them at that new
> queue.
I only have remote console access.
The printer is not JetDirect, is is directly connected via parallel.
This is not supposed to be hard. :-(
I think it is missing some of the needed packages for printing. :-(
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