[plug] RH6 and printing

[Damion Hill]

Arnold,

Anthony's suggestion re samba will solve the problem of one of the 
messages popping up. The other message is about ncpfs which is 
to do with netware services. 

I have found there is no need for either of these for the printing to 
work, they are really just warning messages about extended print 
services.

I suspect the problem you are having could be similar to what I 
found. RH6 refers to the printer port as lp0 (or lpt0 - sorry can't 
recall) whereas RH5.2 and lower referred to it as lp1. Check to 
make sure you have changed this in your /etc/printcap file or use 
the printtool to redefine your printer.

Cheers,
Damion.

On 24 May 99, at 12:44, Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima wrote:

> On Sun, 23 May 1999, Arnold Kaars Sijpesteijn wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > question from an infrequent list member and a lurker.
> > I upgraded to RH6 from 5.2, and almost everything has gone ok.  
> > Except I lost my printer.  I can't print, when I try, I get 
> > permission denied and something about a service which can't be 
> > started.  When I run printtool I get the message Samba isn't 
> > installed, and some other service also, and it bombs out on me.
> > What should I do to get the use of the printer back.  It's an Epson
> > Stylus 600.
> 
> Is the printre installed on your machine .. .ie does it plug into your lpt
> port ??? or is it access over the network ????
> 
> I don't really s'pose it matters ... If printtool has been built to
> require samabe, which seem knida silly, then you'll need to install it:
> 
> mount /mnt/cdrom
> rpm -Uvh /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/samba*rpm
> 
> should install sambe for you ..... give that a try and see what happens
> ???
> 
> Yours Tony.
> 


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Damion Hill
dhill at wantree.com.au