Re: Using a novell shared printer from debian.

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Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 09:31:26 +0100
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On (28/07/05 10:14), ilham.firdaus@id.pwc.com wrote:
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> From: ilham.firdaus@id.pwc.com
> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 10:14:28 +0700
> Subject: Using a novell shared printer from debian.
>
> Dear my friend.
>
> I am new in debian. I am the only one employee who uses linux at our
> office. we use microsoft and novell.
>
> I don't have any problem to use the resource of windows environment but
> for the resources of novell shared yes.
>
> for example I can not print any document from my debian box onto a shared
> printer. This printer is shared by a novell server. the ip of the server
> is 192.168.23.1 and the name of printer is Q8111.
>
> So I downloaded ncpfs and try a simple printer with this way:
> nprint -S 192.168.23.1 -U firdaus -P pinter -q Q8111 ./testing.txt
> It printed properly.
>
> But I don't understand how to make a default printer set up in my KDE. I
> use the printer setup menu of the Control Center but I don't know which
> option I should choose in making my debian can print onto a netware shared
> printer.
>
> I tried this one beside using the control center :
> ln -s nprint lpr
> but of course this one is not sufficient because: no value for ip server,
> no username, no password and no printer queu name
> and this way is also wrong :
> ln -s "nprint -S 192.168.23.1 -U firdaus -P pinter -q Q8111 ./testing.txt
>
> So how can I make the correct printer setup so I can print from my debian
> box properly?

I always use this howto:
http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/Debian-and-Windows-Shared-Printing.html

I have never managed to use the KDE configuration tools to setup printing.

Regards

Clive

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