[Wylug-discuss] Re: [Wylug-help] Lost network printing

[Anne Wilson]

On Wednesday 11 Jan 2006 10:00, John Hodrien wrote:
>
> I'm going to checkout here, as I really don't know KDE well enough. 
> Is your /etc/printcap wrong perhaps?  Only this is trying to print to
> a printer called 'lp' which I assume doesn't exist.
>
Hmm - That's where the problem lies.  Printcap was pointing to a 
non-existant dot-matrix printer.  I checked the contents 
of /etc/printcap on this box, which uses the same printer as the laptop 
needs, and there is nothing in there except the comments.  I commented 
out the lines for the dot-matrix printer and tried to fill in the lines 
for a remote printer, but I'm not sure what some of the lines need.

# lp|Generic dot-matrix printer entry:\
#        :lp=/dev/lp0:\
#        :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
#        :af=/var/log/lp-acct:\
#        :lf=/var/log/lp-errs:\
#        :pl#66:\
#        :pw#80:\
#        :pc#150:\
#        :mx#0:\
#        :sh:

# rlp|Remote printer entry:\
         :lp=:\
         :rm=remotehost:\anne-linux.lydgate.net
         :rp=remoteprinter:\Printer
         :sd=/var/spool/lpd/remote:\
         :mx#0:\
         :sh:

Can someone help with this, please?
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