Re: Using a novell shared printer from debian.

From: Don Jackson (ae5k.radio_at_gmail.com)
Date: 07/28/05

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    Clive Menzies wrote:
    > On (27/07/05 22:26), Kent West wrote:

    >>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
    >

    Hi Clive and Kent,

    There's an updated version of the mini-howto you referenced above found
    at: http://excess.org/docs/linux_windows_printing.html

    I am painfully going through the same nightmare here and after calming
    down a day or so from brain overload, I might have to ask for more
    specific help in trying to just print from one Debian box to another.

    Don 

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