Topic: CUPS / LPRng

[Chris Buechler]

In reply to the posting below:  How do I uninstall LPRng?  Is it just with rpm -e?   how do I find the name of the rpm?

Thanks


Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2004 2:12 pm    Post subject: LPRng bad, CUPS GOOD!

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Just my quick two cents' worth; everyone and I mean EVERYONE who uses a SME server should immediately remove LPRng and install CUPS. It couldn't be easier to do and I've NEVER had CUPS fail me. LPRng has failed me in 5.5, 5.6 and 6.0 in keeping print jobs from various computers straight and in printing in mixed Mac/PC/Linux environments.

CUPS? Calmly and Uninterruptedly Prints; Smooth!

[MSmith]

... you will find the following HOWTO that answers all your questions so you don't have to read sarcastic replies:

http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/rvandenaker/beta/e-smith-cups/

I suppose I could have put that in the original post, but then again it's just as easy for you to type "CUPS" into the search engine as it is for me.  Anyway, CUPS is great and if you're having any sorts of trouble with LPRng you won't regret installing CUPS instead.

[arnoldob]

From http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/rvandenaker/beta/e-smith-cups/documentation/howtos/howto-install-cups.html

[root@hostname root]# rpm -e LPRng e-smith-LPRng

Happy Hacking

[Rien]

Hi,

I am not familiar with CUPS. I have a HP DeskJet 840c inktjet printer (no postscript) which prints very well with LPRng. Why should I install CUPS??

Rien
(Netherlands)

[arnoldob]

I just got the CUPS stuff installed on my SME 6.0 box and it is happy. I got everything working and printing on a Lexmark Z-25 inkjet just fine. Great contrib.

Thanks

[MSmith]

I installed CUPS because printing from my wife's OS X (Jaguar) iBook was unreliable to the HP Laserjet attached to my SME 5.6 server.  After installing CUPS, it worked a treat and has worked flawlessly ever since.

I've also used CUPS to enable an Apple running OS 9 to print to two printers shared from a Windows XP PC.  Magically delicious!

But in your case ... since what you have is working fine, don't mess with it.

[MSmith]

I'm bumping this thread because I just replaced a 6.01 box running CUPS (due to hard drive failure) with a 7.0b8 box.  One of the issues with this network was the necessity of printing from Mac OS 8 and 9 clients to printers shared from Windows XP.  I couldn't get LPRng on 6.01 to do that correctly (though operator error shouldn't be discounted) so I'd installed CUPS on the SME server and it worked a treat until the crash.

I thought I'd see how 7.0 handles such things; I had already installed Print Services for Unix on the XP box long ago, so I set up a network printer in 7.0 with the XP's IP address and the share name as the queue name.  Voila, the 7.0 shared printer showed up in the Mac Chooser and printing worked first time.

Brilliant work, development team!  Many, many thanks.