I have trouble printing to "remote" server.

[Jean-David Beyer]

Jean-David Beyer wrote:
> Jean-David Beyer wrote:
> 
>> I have two machines. The client runs Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. The 
>> server runs Fedora Core 2.
>>
>> I set up the server using the Fedora print configuration tool, and 
>> everything on that machine seems to work. From the print configuration
>>  tool, I can select "Test" and print the CUPS test pattern, the 
>> PostScript test pattern, and the ASCII test. From the shell, I can
>> print ASCII files by doing lpr filename and, IIRC, I can print html
>> pages from the Mozilla browser.
>>
>> But from the client, things are not so good.
 >>
>> [snip]

> Is my server configured wrongly or is the client. In both cases, I used
> the printer configuration tool from Red Hat, and I am somewhat familiar
> with it as I got it to work when the server was running RHL 7.3 with no
> trouble.
> 
I just gave up on Fedora Core 2 and installed Red Hat Linux 9 and after a 
little fixing of /etc/lpd.perms, everything works fine. Soundboard now 
works, xosview works correctly and does not crash, ...

I guess Fedora is just too bleeding edge.

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