Mixing LPRng and CUPS?

[Kevin O'Gorman]

Okay, I'm finally at the point of trying the first step.  It's a bit
easier because it's CUPS on both sides (my wife's WinME system stopped
recognizing its NIC and is having problems with the CDROM for some
reason, and rather than put me through installing Win98 so I can upgrade
to WinMe and probably still not have all her customization, she's
willing to let me teach her Linux.  Hooray!)

Anyway, I thought this would be easy.  I've got a HPLJ4M on a
COL 3.1.1 Server running CUPS.  That seems to be working.

I've just installed COL 3.1.1.WS on my wife's machine, and I'm having
no luck configuring it to use the printer remotely.

What I've tried:
  K -> Control Center -> System -> Printing Manager
  This seems to come up with a HPLJ4M printer, at least it has a printer
  icon with this caption.  Question 1: is this coincidence?  How could
  it know what printer I have on a machine it's not configured to
  contact?  When I scan all of /usr and /etc for files containing this
  string, all I find is a very broken /etc/printcap that has only the
  string HPLJ4M: and no actual configuration -- I have no clue where
  that came from since this is a fresh install. 

  When I click on that icon, however, the icon disappears and the entire
  Control Center freezes.  I have to kill the task.

  Just about anything else I do to try to configure a printer gets the
  same result eventually.  When I try the wizard to create a new printer
  I get as far as naming the remote host (it's on the same 192.168.1.0/24
  network, and I give the IP number) and the port (I tried 515 because
  it's open on the server).

  BTW, I'm assuming CUPS will open its listener on eth0.  This is
  important, because there are 2 NICs on almost all my machines.  The
  "inner" network is 100MB, and eth0 talks to that.  The "outer"
  network is 10MB and connects to a 10MB hub and my DSL router.
  Naturally, I prefer local traffic to be on the inner net.

  While testing, all machines are running a firewall that prohibits
  any traffic originating from the internet.  Only local addresses
  are allowed in NEW connections.

Anyway, the freezeups are annoying and I'm not impressing my wife at
all.  The way she sees it, I just earned my PhD in Computer Science
last month and I ought to be able to do this in my sleep.

Help?

++ kevin

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On 3 Sep 2002, Aaron Grewell wrote:

> CUPS has an LPR emulator, so if that is running and you point your LPR
> machines to the queue on the CUPS server it should work fine. 
> Personally, I like the CUPS interface so much better than the LPR
> frontends I've used that I converted all my machines over.  You
> certainly don't have to, though.
> 
> On Sat, 2002-08-31 at 10:34, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> > I'm getting a COL 3.1.1. Server system ready to serve.
> > It installed CUPS, but the rest of my LAN is using LPRng.
> > I want this machine to have the actual printer.  Am I
> > going to have to choose between CUPS and LPRng, or will
> > they play nicely together?
> > 
> > ++ kevin
> > 
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