Re: public cluster printing?

Matthew Hiller (matthew.hiller@yale.edu)
Thu, 5 Nov 1998 01:23:21 -0500 (EST)

Everything Shawn said.

In addition, recent RedHat distributions (5.1 definitely, and
probably 5.0 as well) even allow you to shield yourself from using
smbclient directly. Just run the printtool (as root - from the command
prompt or the control-panel) and it'll guide you through the process of
setting up SMB printers. Once you've set one up, you'll be able to print
to it with lpr -Pprinter_name, where printer_name is whatever you decided
to call the printer.

Yes, printtool is essentially a GUI frontend for editing
/etc/printcap. It works quite well, though; it took me all of 2 minutes to
set myself up with a print queue to \\uniprint3\ch_laser1

Matt