[ILUG] Printing to Novell Printers from Linux

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Rory Winston (Rory.Winston at telewest.co.uk):

> Anyone know if its possible to print to Novell printer shares from
> Linux/FreeBSD? I havent been able to find this kind of Novell client
> functionality for Linux 

http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Printing-HOWTO/network.html#NETWORK-TO-NETWARE

Be careful about your terminology.  "Novell printing" (and "NetWare
printing") is ambiguous.  NetWare is a multiprotocol server; printing
may be over any of various protocol stacks.

Usually, people mean printing using NCP (NetWare core protocol) over SPX.  
But NCP was increasingly abstracted from IPX/SPX over successive NetWare
versions, and with NetWare 5.x is fully modular (and thus no longer
IPX/SPX-dependent).

Some NetWare servers -- even 3.x/4.x ones -- also ran lpr services over
TCP/IP.  Not to mention Apple-style printing using AppleTalk packets.

Consult your NetWare admin, as to what protocols the NetWare queue 
answers to.

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Cheers,
Rick Moen                     Emacs is a decent operating system,
rick at linuxmafia.com           but it still lacks a good text editor.