On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, AlphaByte wrote:
> Are you printing to a networked printer shared through the Solaris box. I have
Exactly. The solaris machine runs LPRng and communicates with remote HP
printers. I think they have jetdirect cards, but I may be mistaken on that
point.
> been trying to get an HP LaserJet 5000 GN to print and it wont from most
> applications, except those few that bypass lpr and use the printers shortname.
We can't do this... we need to print through LPRng to keep track of
accounting (we're a university and charge for printing).
>
> This may be more widespread than you think!
>
Well, I certainly know that is widespread in my department... I can't find
a single linux box out of several dozen that is able to print.
> Alan
>
> On Wed, 09 Feb 2000, Steve Feehan wrote:
> > Is there a known problem between the version of the lpr rpm that ships
> > with Redhat 6.1 and LPRng 3.4.2 running on Solaris 2.6?
> >
> > The reason I ask is that we were able to print with Redhat 6, but when we
> > upgraded to Redhat 6.1 printing was broken. If I "downgrade" the lpr rpm
> > on Redhat 6.1 to the version that shipped with Redhat 6 then the problem
> > goes away. I would like to avoid running older versions of lpr on the
> > linux boxes, however.
> >
> > Any ideas will be appreciated.
> >
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> >
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