[ILUG] Remote Printing

[Declan Grady]

Hi folks,
A wee question....

I can setup remote printers frorm my "SCO Openserver 5" box, and it works
successfully, printing to a PC with a print server (Esker TUN LPD), and
routing them through the same network again to a printer shared via in
win95.
(Seems to ignore the control codes, but thats a different problem)

Now, however, since linux is finally making (some) sense to me, I want to
use a RH7 box as my print server, and also as samba file server for my small
workgroup.... etc etc... how do I set up the same idea in my linux box ? I
believe samba will allow me share a printer with windoze machines, but what
about the unix end ?
Ideally, I'd like to be able to print both landscape & portrait, mabye using
different printer names for the same destination printer, just with
different settings, but I dont know how !

On a completely separate topic, I'm reaching the max cable length on my
co-ax, and was thinking of splitting my network and using a bridge between
them. I have two buildings, and most traffic is within the one building,
with just some telnet, pop3 and smtp stuff between the two buildings. - Am I
on the right track, or is there a better solution.
(I have approx 16 users, mostly telnet, and w95/98 peer-peer shares of files
& printers, 7 of these are all in one room, so could easily be separated as
one subnet)

 From a quick read of the Bridging-HOWTO, I think its as simple as a machine
with two nic's and some logic to decide if the packets are destined for the
other nic or not ? - Is this the same idea as packet filtering - allowing
all packets with a destination on the other subnet to goto the other nic
  - Mabye there is a better way ?

Last, but not least, and a bit more OT - My network configuration is all
higgeldy-piggeldy !
I have one long co-ax, teed off at each workstation.
I also have a 10 Meg 16-port hub, which I intended changing to from the
co-ax... Which should I be using .. the co-ax or the hub ? - I have been
having a lot of traffic at times, when people are archiving files to another
machine across the network, and other people are trying to use telnet to the
sco-box .. slows it down to a crawl...
- How would I get a picture of the volume of traffic on my net ?

Hmmm. This has gotten to be a very long request.... sorry !

All help most welcome

Thanks,
Declan


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