setting up remote printing

[Jack Coats]

For some interesting remote printing stuff, check out http://www.tpc.int
(this is the only .int "Internet" domain name I have ever seen).

They allow sending and recieving effectively faxes via the Internet and
delivered to someone electronically or via a fax machine.  Their coverage
worldwide it spotty, but they do have a pretty significant coverage map.

And, yes, it is free.  But can be throttled on delivery of faxes if you abuse 
it :) ... a good thing.

On 20 May 2003 12:33:31 -0500, Thomas Lopolito wrote
> Try using cups to setup the network printer. I'm using debian 2.4.18 
> on my workstation and am connecting to a netgear printserver box to print
> and it works.
> -tom
> 
> On Tue, 2003-05-20 at 11:58, John Chambers wrote:
> > | I'm trying to set up my laptop and my server so that typing "lpr" on the
> > | laptop sends a file to the printer that's connected on the server.  I
> > | thought I followed all the instructions in the relevant HOWTO, but
> > | something is obviously missing.  The laptop is running Debian stable,
> > | and the server is running Debian unstable.
> > |
> > | sethg at belladonna:~$ echo 'This is a test' >test.txt
> > | sethg at belladonna:~$ lpr test.txt
> > | sethg at belladonna:~$ lpq
> > | belladonna: waiting for queue to be enabled on petunia
> > | Rank   Owner      Job  Files                                 Total Size
> > | 1st    sethg      1    test.txt                              15 bytes
> > |
> > | petunia: /usr/sbin/lpd: lp: Your host does not have line printer access
> > 
> > Dunno if Debian is the same, but on RedHat you can create a
> > /etc/hosts.lpd file and fill it in with the IP addresses of
> > machines that are allowed to use the  printer.   Maybe  you
> > could  use  FQDNs,  too, but I haven't tried that.  Maybe I
> > should test it.
> > 
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