FC5 and printing with an LPRNG server

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Hello,

we've got about 50 client machines, that will be installed with kickstart.

Problem is that our print server is a solaris machine with LPRNG. We cannot switch to cups here, since we are dependent on our print accounting solution.

I'd like to configure all printers (about 10 printers) during the kickstart procedure.

On a testmachine I did this:

lpadmin -p printer1 -v lpd://printserver/printer1
cupsenable printer1
lpadmin -p printer2 -v lpd://printserver/printer2
cupsenable printer2
...

printing does not work though. lpq tells me something about "printer printer1 is not ready"

What am I doing wrong? I know that I can specify a ppd file with lpadmin's option "-m laserjet.ppd.gz". In this case printing works. But why do I have to specify the printer, if the client isn't the backend? Isn't it the LPRNG server that needs the printer driver installed? It's not very comfortable if I have to specify the printer type on every client.

Another problem is that - in the case that printing works after having specified the correct ppd file - the printjobs immediately disappear on the client machine. As a consequence the printjob cannot be interrupted by the client. Do you have any solutions for this?

thanks in advance

Boris


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