Serving a GhostScript que via LPD

[Anonymous]

It's me again. I cannot belive that I cannot find any information regarding this topic. It seems that cups is not so well documented and understood. The responses that I have gotten do not instil confidence that this will work at all!

Please help for I am trying SO hard to get this to work, it is a shoe in for LInux in my company, an otherwise OpenVMS centric shop. (not that I am even implying that Linux will replace VMS)!!!!

Help!
Brent - GE Medical

> > 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!