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

[David Whiteley]

Annne,

Do you have the Cups BSD compatability .deb package installed?   

I think that this may be what you are missing.

Dave


On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 12:26 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> 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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