Re: [Sheflug] Printing problems NT4 / LTSP

[Seb James <seb [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 12:07, Morris, David (Allvac, UK) wrote:
> Ok, it's a bit hairy, but here goes...
> 
> We've completed roll-out of a handful of LTSP clients and server to our
> shop floor. No problems, everything working well and the guys on the
> shop floor are happy.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> The NT server loses the job, but it seems to get lost between the LTSP
> server and the clients, and certainly nowt comes out on the client.  Has
> anyone (Seb perhaps) had similar problems? Do you think we're going the
> right way about trying to solve the problem?
> 

Here's a possible solution: In the LTSP start-up scripts, have your LTSP
clients start an lpd process locally so that NT can send lpr jobs to the
client.

As to the details of how to do this, you'll have to have a search
through the web as it's not something I've had to do, but I don't think
it'd be very hard. You'll want to put a script in
/opt/ltsp/i386/etc/rc.d/ and there's a sample in there already to help
you.

Seb

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