RE: [Sheflug] Printing on a Novell Printer at Sheffield Univ.

[Nicola Richmond <n.j.richmond [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jan,

> Dear Nicola,
> 
> The person you need to speak to in CICS is Ian Belton (23043 i.j.belton [at] shef)

Many thanks for this.

> Assuming this printer belongs to your dept and isn't actually somebody else's, 
> CICS is only administering it for you and they disable all unnecessary services 
> by default for security.  It's perfectly possible for Ian to enable the TCP/IP if 
> he's requested to do so by the person who asked him to set it up in the first place.
> This will be the same person who tells Ian the userID's of the people who are 
> allowed to print to it - probably your dept computer rep or the guy who paid 
> for the printer.

Yes it's our printer. My department were even going to buy me my own
personal printer to get around this problem. I'm sure they'll be pleased
if this can be solved.

> I know it's possible because we have one which has been thus enabled 
> and we print to it happily from RedHat.  I set it up easily using good old printtool, 
> which works fine for all my network printers so I've not yet had to deal with 
> the famous CUPS.
> 
> If you need any help call me.
> 
> Cheers,   Jan White  (22741 jan.white [at] shef)

I might just do that.

Thanks again to thanks to everyone else who replied.

Nicola.



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