[ale] printer support in router

[aaron]

I'm glad Michael brought this up. My D-Link 704p router includes a parallel 
port and (supposedly) can work as a print server as well. I've considered 
putting it to use so my daughter can print to the HP Laser from her Mandrake 
box without another system having to be running. Sounds like this will be 
trivial to set up, which is good because  the DLink  manual has only one 
small but interesting note about the print server support:

"Please follow the traditional configuration procedure on UNIX platforms to 
set up the print server of the DL-704p. The printer name is 'lp'." 

I've had a few struggles with Linux and Printing and still don't feel like I 
have a great handle on the process, so I was kind of avoiding the project.
Now I'm anxious to give this a shot!

peace
aaron



On Monday 21 April 2003 12:42, Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> On Monday 21 April 2003 11:34 am, Dow Hurst wrote:
> > Whoa!  I misread your post!!!
> >
> > Just assigned the IP of the printer plugged into the printer port (which
> > is your router's internal IP) to the CUPs printer URL.  What you will be
> > doing is just telling CUPS that it must connect to the printer via an IP
> > instead of a local USB or parallel port.  If the printer understands
> > Postscript or if CUPs has a driver for the printer you are in business.
> > Dow
> 
> Ah.  Great.  Then it should work for us.  I'm getting closer and closer to 
> putting the whole family on Linux.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Michael
> 
> > Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> > >I'm looking for a way for my wife and me to share a printer and ran
> > > across a broadband router with a printer port.  Anyone know how these
> > > work?  Of course, the docs say you must have Windows of Mac, but who
> > > reads docs.
> > >
> > >Can I just use, say, CUPS and tell it that it has a network address?
> > >Anyone using one of these?
> > >
> > >Thanks,
> > >
> > >Michael
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