[rescue] printer setup

[Andrew Weiss]

On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, William Enestvedt wrote:

>    Why not just email him the correct lpadmin commands and let him type
> them, or log in remotely and do it for him? I'm afraid I don't get the
> question. (It should be pointed out that I _am_ pretty obtuse.)
>    Is it a networked printer? You can (as I mentioned) use Admintool to set
> up access to an LP-enabled Windows queue, and if it's an HP, Sun says to
> install and use HP's JetAdmin to send the jobs right to the printer.
> -wde

Right now I'm just using smbprint.sysv.  You do the lpadmin -p printername
-v /dev/null -i/path/to/smbprint.sysv
accept printername
enable printername

and make sure you have guest access on the printer share if you need quick
and dirty access.

Andrew J. Weiss
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