[cups.general] Printing to plp-System

[Helge Blischke]

Daniel Spannbauer wrote:
> 
> Helge Blischke schrieb:
> 
>>Daniel Spannbauer wrote:
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>>>Ok, Good to know. Otherwise, can I print to a printe rattach to a Server
>>>by the old LPD-System (In SUSE called lprng-old)?
>>>
>>>Regards
>>>
>>>Daniel
>>>
>>>
>>>Helge Blischke schrieb:
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>>>    
>>>
>>>>Daniel Spannbauer wrote:
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>>>>
>>>>>Hallo,
>>>>>
>>>>>wie have a System which is growing throu the time, but the
>>>>>Printing-System is still the old PLP-System.
>>>>>
>>>>>Now we are planing to switch to newer Linux-VErsions so we also have to
>>>>>update the Printing-System to Cups.
>>>>>But this is going step by step so we have to print from the Cups-System
>>>>>to some old Machines with PLP installed.
>>>>>
>>>>>Is Cups able to print to a Printer which is attached by the plp-System?
>>>>>
>>>>>Regards
>>>>>
>>>>>Daniel Spannbauer
>>>>>
>>>>>   
>>>>>        
>>>>
>>>>If printing to plp printers using the lpd backend does not work,
>>>>let me know, I have an experimental PLP backend (a Perl script)
>>>>that works with a quite old PLP installation from about d dozen years
>>>>ago but may easily be modified to your needs.
>>>>
>>>>Helge
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 
>>>>      
>>>
>>>    
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>>Yes, that brobably will work, but, as the LPD protocol is hardly
>>treated as a standard,there is a possibility that this will not
>>work. Use the lpd backend.
>>
>>Helge
>>
>>  
> 
> Ok, as I'm a dumb User I use the SuSE-Toy called Yast. Choose the
> Printing over Network, to a LPD-Server. I choose my Printer (here a
> Postscript-Level1-Printer),
> set the Remote-Server an the Printer-Name on the Remoteserver und try to
> print a Test-Page. On the Cups-Server there is no Error, but in the
> Messages of the LPD-Server I found the following:
> 
> Apr 10 13:51:49 b-fs /usr/uti/lib/lpd[500]: From_host: from port 51227, max is 1023
> Apr 10 13:51:49 b-fs /usr/uti/lib/lpd[500]: lpd: From_host failed - No child processes 
> 
> Whats the Problem on the LPR-Side?
> In The Cups-Messages on the Cups-Server theres the Message "Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/lpd", so I think that the LPD-Backend is used.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Daniel
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At the CUPS side, append "?reserve=yes" (without the quotes)to the
pritner's device URI to force the backend
only to use privileged prts.

Helge


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