[Aurora-sparc-user] Printing from an Ultra 5?

[Scot P. Floess]

Tom:

I see...

That's a real bummer :(  I had just spent a ton of time trying to make 
my U5 an administrative server - and print server :(

Oh well, I guess it can go back to being a silly old database :)

I appreciate -all- your help :)

Scot

Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 10:29 -0400, Scot P. Floess wrote:
>   
>> Tom:
>>
>> Understood ;)
>>
>> So, question - assuming I attempted to print a document...would I
>> expect to see any messages in /var/log/messages stating a print job
>> was submitted?
>>     
>
> Probably not. It would be lucky if the kernel was able to even see the
> printer on the parallel port.
>
> You'd have far better luck connecting a USB printer.
>
> ~spot
>
>
>   

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