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Operating Systems Linux Printer Setup(s) Post 302340126 by drewrockshard on Sunday 2nd of August 2009 07:35:07 PM
Old 08-02-2009
Printer Setup(s)
I'm so frustrated.

I have almost no experience with setting up printers and networking through Linux. That being said, I need some help. In fact, I don't even know if this setup is possible, and for all I know, I might need a Window's solution.

I'm a hardcore Linux guy, so talk to me that way - It's printing that I don't quite understand. For the most part, the Printing stuff is handled mostly by the windows guys, so that's why I'm asking here.

Here's the setup. I have an office. There is a printer, and a database. Unfortunately, since most of the other people in the oranization has no idea what linux is, for the past 5 years, have developed an Access database with all user information in it. Therefore, they do not want to change this.

To make matters worse, they want to use access and do not want to upgrade to an SQL install, so therefore, are using the default JET database, which cannot be **successfully** used through a WAN environment (get to this in a sec).

Ok, so, there's 1 printer, a linux server running Samba, and a Windows Workstation at the office. Everything in this environment works fine.

Then we have remote users. The business owner wants people to remotely access the database, and print on the local printers (not the printer in the remote location). A VPN cannot be setup, this is due to the JET database, its unbelievably slowwwwwwwww. So, then I tried setting up RDP connection, which work, but all these printers are USB, so they are not "attaching" themselves to the RDP connection properly. I have referred to some Windows docs on how to do this, but they simply do not work, or I'm doing something wrong.

So there are a few remote networks, with laptops and/or workstations. Either way, the remote places have their own local printers, but the business owner wants to all the users to print to their local printers from the remote database, through an RDP connection.

Is there any way, that anyone knows, how to basically tie all the printers together to be shared together, no matter what. I've tried using a web service (printshare), which is fine, but definately not the solution i would ever implement or trust. Ideally, I would want to just setup individual "small" print servers (or REALLY ideally - 1 single print server), that would allow any computer to print to any printer. The problem with all this, that is different than a normal setup is that each location is is a different WAN - each location is on a totally different network - remotely.

Any ideas, insight, or anything?
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

enable

enable(1)                                                          User Commands                                                         enable(1)

NAME

       enable, disable - enable/disable LP printers

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/bin/enable printer...

       /usr/bin/disable [-c | -W]  [ -r [reason]] printer...

DESCRIPTION

       The  enable  command  activates  printers,  enabling  them to print requests submitted by the lp command. enable must be run on the printer
       server.

       The disable command deactivates printers, disabling them from printing requests submitted by the lp command. By default, any requests  that
       are  currently  printing  on printer will be reprinted in their entirety either on printer or another member of the same class of printers.
       The disable command must be run on the print server.

       Use lpstat -p to check the status of printers.

       enable and disable only effect queueing on the print server's spooling system. Executing these commands from a client system will  have  no
       effect on the server.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported for use with disable:

       -c              Cancels  any requests that are currently printing on printer. This option cannot be used with the -W option. If the printer
                       is remote, the -c option will be silently ignored.

       -W              Waits until the request currently being printed is finished before disabling printer. This option cannot be used  with  the
                       -c option. If the printer is remote, the -W option will be silently ignored.

       -r [reason]     Assigns  a  reason  for  the  disabling  of  the  printer(s). This reason applies to all printers specified. This reason is
                       reported by lpstat -p. Enclose reason in quotes if it contains blanks. The default  reason  is  "unknown  reason"  for  the
                       existing printer, and "new printer" for a printer added to the system but not yet enabled.

OPERANDS

       The following operand is supported for both enable and disable:

       printer         The  name of the printer to be enabled or disabled. Specify printer using atomic name. See printers.conf(4) for information
                       regarding the naming conventions for atomic names.

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0               Successful completion.

       non-zero        An error occurred.

FILES

       /var/spool/lp/*         LP print queue.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE         |      ATTRIBUTE VALUE        |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability                 |SUNWpcu                      |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |CSI                          |enabled                      |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       lp(1), lpstat(1), printers.conf(4), attributes(5)

SunOS 5.10                                                          9 Sep 1996                                                           enable(1)
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