[95459] in RedHat Linux List
RE: printing setup
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles Galpin)
Sun Oct 18 20:54:49 1998
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 20:51:17 -0400
From: Charles Galpin <cgalpin@lighthouse-software.com>
To: Jan Heurich <redhat-list@redhat.com>
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===== Original Message from Jan Heurich <redhat-list@redhat.com> at 10/18/98
6:19 pm
>I want to have poeple from a remote host printing via a RH5.1 printer
>server to some network printer. At the moment it looks as if only poeple
>from the remote host who also have an accnount on the printer server are
>allowed to use the printer. But the 'rs'-flag int /etc/printcap ist not
>set... So why can't they just use the printer.
You don't say if these are unix or MS clients. If using samba,
# Set public = yes to allow user 'guest account' to print
guest ok = yes
will allow them to print without accounts. I believe they will be serviced
as the user nobody
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Charles Galpin <cgalpin@lighthouse-software.com>
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