Re: Using a novell shared printer from debian.

From: Clive Menzies (clive_at_clivemenzies.co.uk)
Date: 07/28/05

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    On (27/07/05 22:26), Kent West wrote:
    > ilham.firdaus@id.pwc.com wrote:
    >
    > > 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 think printing is still pretty much a nightmare in Linux.
    >
    > What I do, is to install cups (aptitude install cupsys - I always have
    > to install printer drivers also, but I never can remember (the name of
    > the package is non-intuitive, something like foomatic-db-gimp-print -
    > why is "gimp" in there?!!!!).
    >
    > Then point your web browser to "http://localhost:631/admin" and you
    > should be able to figure it out from there.
    >
    > (Why is there no man page for cups or cupsys?!!! Why is it so hard to
    > find the :631 reference?!! Why is the documentation wrong when it does
    > mention 631?!! (Recently you've had to add the /admin portion, which is
    > not referenced in /usr/share/doc/Readme.txt.gz Otherwise you get
    > nothing)?!! Okay, I'm finished with my rant, except to say that printing
    > still sucks on Linux!!)

    Wow! You really are p*ssed ;)

    Yep. I found trying to do anything IPP (via KDE) a nightmare and as for
    xprint .....

    The one document that seems to get me up and running painlessly (using
    cups) is this one:
    http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/Debian-and-Windows-Shared-Printing.html

    .... not given me a headache yet.

    In my exprerience, printing can be a pain in any operating system when
    it goes wrong. I recall hours of fun with Mac OS8/9.

    Regards

    Clive 

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