Re: [gentoo-user] Network printing

[Peter Humphrey <peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org>]

On Wednesday 07 January 2009 14:20:24 BRM wrote:

> From what I can see in this new thread this year, you just need to do the
> couple steps to make your Workstations work as CUPS Clients by
> configuring it as a client and then it should work.

Of course it should. It does not. I simply cannot find the necessary 
invocations and USE flags etc. No matter what I try I cannot get printing 
to work over the network. I always get a succession of success messages 
from cups, followed by "printer does not exist" when I try to print a test 
page. That's a pretty strange definition of success in anybody's book. Even 
a straightforward postscript laser cannot be made to work now.

I'm going to give it up altogether as a lost cause. Every machine on the 
network will have to have the printers set up locally, and be carried to 
where the printers are whenever a print job is needed.

This is one giant black mark for Linux, the ultimate networking OS. I've 
been using Linux on-and-off for about 15 years, but I'm seriously 
considering the future of it in this house.

Thanks for trying to help.

-- 
Rgds
Peter