Need info on networked printer

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When asked his whereabouts on Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 05:46:10PM -0500,
Walter Vaughan took the fifth, drank it, and then slurred:
> I don't need feedback on what kind of POS a Brother printer is. I do 
> need about 2 seconds of hand holding on using a Brother HL-5170DN in a 
> unix environment. We print all day to printers connected to windows 
> computers from a *nix server. I have NEVER used a free standing printer 
> ever with filePro, and I really never found a howto in the archives that 
> I have found. How does one address networked printers? Is it just like 
> printing to windowboxes via samba (////IP.AD.DRE.SS//PRINTER_NAME)?
> 
> Or is it a LPR only deal. Which is something I've never done.

If I'm to assume that this is a free-standing network-capable printer with
its own IP#, you simply set it up in the administration tool for the
platform of your choice with the right IP# and away you go.  Then you use
lp/lpr with -D/-P (respectively) for that definition.

Which *nix?  Under SCO, use scoadmin.  Under SuSE, use yast.  Under RH, if
you have GUI, there's a tool--used to be called printtool, but they changed
the name at some point.  Get to it from control-panel.

Or you could do it the hard way and install everything, including your
printcap entry, manually.  :)

> What's even more unusual about this printer is that in the PDF on 
> Brother's website they even mention that printer works with RedHat, 
> Suse, Mandrake, Debian.
> 
> Sign me "in new territory".

Probably just a printer with a built-in BSD-ish lpd.  Treat it as you would
any *nix printer to which you allow remote printing.

mark->
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