Re: Printing to network printers

[Martin Mueller <muller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, Alwin Wiederhold wrote:

> Hi
> 
> Using RedHat 4.2, I have set up the printer using the control panel.
> This is not working.
> 
> How do I set up the printer so that I can print to a novell print
> server?
> 

O.K, good to see you have finally migrated here .... long time no see:

To print on a novell network, you need to compile your Kernel with Novell
support (IPX support). You will then need to get ncpfs. I am running
ncpfs-2.0.10. It should be sitting on my little toy at

ftp://sigma.phys.wits.ac.za/pub/ipx/

but is definitely on sunsite.

This package contains a utility, nprint,that will print on Novell 3
( I don't know whether it works on later versions, but seem to remember
from the IPX-Howto that it does not). 


I have written some very primitive scripts that allow the LPRng daemon to
print to a Novell queue, but I supect that all you want to do is actually
print your thing from a shell.

regards
  Martin