Mixing LPRng and CUPS?

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Sat, 31 Aug 2002 20:38:24 -0700 (PDT)
"Kevin O'Gorman" <kevin at kosmanor.com> wrote:

> I do not want them on the same machine.  I want different machines to
> talk together, and they have different printing engines.  So I'm thinking
> of LPRng machines using a remote printer on a CUPS machine.

It surely must be. After all, if a winders box can send a print job to the
computer, then this must be less an issue.

Maybe try having the print server make the printer available via Samba, and
then have the client boxes access the printer via samba, which they access
vis whichever local printer management system is installed (LPRng or CUPS).

Also, when it comes to network printing, I think there are two prominent
protocols; SVR5 and BSD. These have verious names, but it must be possible
to see which protocol LPRng and CUPS use as their network protocol.

> 
> Is this workable?
> 
> ++ kevin
> 
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> On Sat, 31 Aug 2002, Joel Hammer wrote:
> 
> > I just installed lprng using adminmenu on my libranet debian machine.
> > It was easy.
> > However, I noticed an error message saying that cups or some part of it
> > was going to be removed. So, I suspect they might conflict.
> > Why would you want both on the same machine? Don't they do the same
> > thing? Joel
> > 
> > 
> > On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 09:18:03PM -0600, bof wrote:
> > > Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> > > 
> > > >Am I going to have to choose between CUPS and LPRng, or will
> > > >they play nicely together?
> > > >
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I believe that CUPS will uninstall LPRng as part of its installation 
> > > process. If for some reason it does not, then you will have problems 
> > > using either, since CUPS uses the standard unix printing commands
> > > (lpq, lprm, etc).
> > > 
> > > BOF
> > > 
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