Re: [Sheflug] Printing problems NT4 / LTSP

[Alan Dawson <aland [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoting "Morris, David (Allvac, UK)" <david [at] allvac.co.uk>:


> We need to print from an NT box to the parallel printers attached to the
> LTSP clients. No problem, I thought. Wrong. The LTSP boxes only support
> direct TCP printing on port 9100. NT4 only supports LPR printing.
> 

Can you print using Jetdirect ports to the ltsp client printer ?  NT4 doesn't do
TCP/IP printing but if you have a HP JetDirect CD lying about ??


> We identified the problem, so I thought one solution would be to spool
> the prints from the NT4 server via LPR to the LTSP server then use that
> to resubmit them (in effect) to the LTSP client.
> 


Or you could put Samba and CUPS on the LTSP server and share it out that way?


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