Re: On lprng and magicfilter (was: Re: : Re: Using a novell shared printer from debian.)

2005-07-29 Thread Clive Menzies
On (28/07/05 23:46), Rogério Brito wrote: > On Jul 28 2005, Joel Peter William Pitt wrote: > > Used LPRng as the spool daemon and magicfilter as the filter. > > Nice to see others using this combination of programs. I sincerely > think that magicfilter is underrated. It simply works in the usual >

On lprng and magicfilter (was: Re: : Re: Using a novell shared printer from debian.)

2005-07-28 Thread Rogério Brito
On Jul 28 2005, Joel Peter William Pitt wrote: > Used LPRng as the spool daemon and magicfilter as the filter. Nice to see others using this combination of programs. I sincerely think that magicfilter is underrated. It simply works in the usual Unix tradition. To be honest, I have not looked much

Re: Using a novell shared printer from debian.

2005-07-28 Thread Joel Peter William Pitt
Hi I just got printing to a printer on a Novell server working (after giving up on it ages ago, hurray for small successes!). Used LPRng as the spool daemon and magicfilter as the filter. printcap entry: lp|:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\ :mx#0:\ :sh:\ :if=/etc/magicfilter/filter:\ :af=/var/spool/lp

Re: Using a novell shared printer from debian.

2005-07-28 Thread Clive Menzies
On (28/07/05 09:54), Don Jackson wrote: > 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 neve

Re: Using a novell shared printer from debian.

2005-07-28 Thread Don Jackson
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-intui

Re: Using a novell shared printer from debian.

2005-07-28 Thread Kent West
Clive Menzies wrote: >On (27/07/05 22:26), Kent West wrote: > > >>(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 referen

Re: Using a novell shared printer from debian.

2005-07-28 Thread Clive Menzies
On (27/07/05 22:26), Kent West wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Re: Using a novell shared printer from debian.

2005-07-28 Thread Clive Menzies
On (28/07/05 10:14), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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 employ

Re: Using a novell shared printer from debian.

2005-07-27 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Using a novell shared printer from debian.

2005-07-27 Thread ilham . firdaus
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