I need to setup printers on Linux redhat server v5.5. I am coming from an openvms environment the process we use on openvms is as follows

1. Create lpd queue
2. Then create printer relay queue which formats the print job and send it off to the lpd queue which transfer it out to the print server.

I am assuming I have to do something similar on the Linux system. Please confirm and give the steps for me to do this. I read cups documentation and other articles still not clear to me any help will be greatly appreciated. If this is not the correct forum let me know.

open up the cups web interface on the rhel machine and configure it from there
it is :
http://localhost:631/

The above link is to the machine you are sitting in front of .

and see the old rhel5 documentation
https://access.redhat.com/site/docum...erprise_Linux/

and search the Redhat Knowledge base
https://access.redhat.com/search/quick
( you will have to log in to the red hat site with the credentials you set up with the required support contract )

John,

Is there a whitepaper or forum discussion that gives me step by step using the CLI. I cannot URL connect to the system do to the network configuration. I have been trying over the last 2 weeks.

have a look at the man page for "system-config-printer"
also the "foomatic" db of printers
and search the redhat Knowledge base

There are many 'step-by-step' guides that can EASILY be found. I put "how to create lpd queues in linux with cli", and got:

http://sumitgoel.me/2013/01/14/netwo...-command-line/

...as one of the results. If you've been looking for two weeks now, wouldn't it be likely you'd have come across such things in Google by now? You will need SOME sort of access to the Linux system, and access to the root account to build system-wide queues. However, since you want to print to a Windows server, you will need information about that Windows print server, and you'll also need to do/make sure of a couple of things on it

• The Windows print server will have to have the printer(s) shared to the network
• You will need a valid user ID/password (if required) for the Windows system
• You will need the workgroup name that the Windows system is in
• The Windows print server will need to have Windows support for Unix printing enabled.
• You will need the IP address of the Windows print server
• You will need the name of the printer/queue ON the Windows print server

Lpadmin needs these things. When you set up the queue, they'll all be required. For example, to set up a printer named LASER1 on a Windows print server at address 10.11.12.13, workgroup GROUP using the user ID Bob with the password Alice, as a Linux printer name of NewLaser:

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