Need help with installing network printer [SOLVED]

Sebbe · Last edited by Sebbe on Sun Jun 27, 2004 10:58 pm; edited 1 time in total

I have just succesfully installed a printer on one of my gentoo computers and would like share that printer with the other gentoo computer.
How do I go about doing this?

I've read the gentoo howto and it just mentions /etc/client.conf and /etc/cupsd.conf but it doesnt go into any depth about how to set it up.

yodi · Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2004 10:25 pm Post subject:

Hi there,
I'll be trying the same thing tomorrow, yet instead of editing the config files you could just use [url] http://localhost:631/[/url] interface.

Makes adding printers a lot easier

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Sebbe · Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2004 11:20 pm Post subject:

Solved it myself!

Didn't have to change anything in /etc/cups/client.conf or /etc/cups/cupsd.conf.

Here's what i did:
I set "disable = no" in /etc/xinetd.d/cups-lpd and restarted xinetd
Then I just

Narr · n00b Joined: 05 Jun 2003 Posts: 22 Location: New Zealand

Sebbe: was that in the client or server

Sebbe · Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2004 9:28 am Post subject:

Ohh, sorry :oops:

I set "disable = no" in /etc/xinetd.d/cups-lpd on the server side and

Narr · n00b Joined: 05 Jun 2003 Posts: 22 Location: New Zealand

Thanx Sebbe.
In the end I got the server to broadcast the brinters across my lan.
The problem with this is that OOo jobs seem to take forever to send to the printer. OOo spooles it as expected but the printer doesn't print the document for a very long time.... when it starts it prints as expected

Does any one know what could cause this lag.
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Sebbe · Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2004 12:28 pm Post subject:

Seems to be a common problem Narr.
I even found an article on slashdot
Maybe you can find a sloution among the comments to that article.

brent_weaver · Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 4:27 pm Post subject:

can anyone help me get a LPD host queue running. This is the biggest Linux mystery that I have met yet...

where is all the good documemntation?

I am ultimately trying to serve up a PDF printer via LPD, but for now will be happy just creating and serving an LPD queue....

PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!!!!!
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