Serving a GhostScript que via LPD

[Anonymous]

> On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 03:09:27PM -0400, anonymous at easyw.com wrote:
> > Hello all. I am not that impressed w/ cups thus far and am looking for someone to wow me here!
> > I am looking to create a cups-pdf printer queue that is served up by LPD with the goal of "printing" to a PDF file from my VMS servers.
> >
> > I have cups-lpd running as part of xinetd w/o incident. I am
> > unable to add a simple LPD host queue on my Gentoo box to be printed
> > to from other hosts. The web admin is not at all helpful, what do I
> > need to put in the URI field? I have tried many things and nothing
> > seems to be working!
> >
> > Remember that I am trying to serve a LPD queue that will
> > ultimately print to PDF... what am I missing here?
>
> you should install the cups-pdf backend, and also modify cupsd.conf
> to accept connections from remote hosts (and restart CUPS, although
> cups-lpd maybe doesn't care since inetd starts it anew each time)
>
> cupsd.conf uses Allow/Deny directives the same way
> than (or similar to) Apache.
>
> hth
>
> Jerome Alet
>


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Jerome,

Thanks for this info. How in cups web admin do I serve up the PDF printer? How do I get the cups-pdf backup to write a pdf file to a location I specify?

I need to know what I put in the URI field to create this host LPD que.

Any help is really appreciated!