lp_server vs. jetpipe

Below someone claims that jetpipe is not capable of handling serial 
printers.  Is this true?  Is there any reason that we need to support 
more than one print server in LTSP upstream?

Warren

Frantisek Hanzlik wrote:
> As I can see on Ubuntu and Debian forums, jetpipe is very simple python
> script, and at this time isn't capable initialize serial line printers.
> I a week ago upgrade some system I manage to F9/LTSP 5 and must solve
> printing to printers (paralell, serial and USB too) connected to thin
> clients.
> Thus I was build print server which was used in ltsp 4 - "lp_server"
> from P.Powell.
> After several days utilization, I must say this work without problems.
> (On older versions K12LTSP I was using this program for more than four
> years, and it works well, with small system footprint).
> 
> For easy integration lp_server to F9 I made:
> 
> - lp_server RPM package for F9/i386 lp_server-1.1.6-1.fc9.i386.rpm
> available at
> http://hanzlici.cz/packages/fedora/lp_server/lp_server-1.1.6-1.fc9.i386.rpm
> (23kB)
> 
> - lp_server source RPM lp_server-1.1.6-1.fc9.src.rpm available at
> http://hanzlici.cz/packages/fedora/lp_server/lp_server-1.1.6-1.fc9.src.rpm
> (73 KB)
> 
> -  patch for ltsp-init-common script from ltsp-5.1.7, which replaces
> jetpipe with lp-server: ltsp-init-common.patch.tgz available at
> http://hanzlici.cz/packages/fedora/lp_server/ltsp-init-common.patch.tgz
> Patch is against ltsp-5.1.7 package (1.2 kB)
> 
> RPM must be installed in thin client system, either by hand chrooting
> to /opt/ltsp/i386 or adding to repo and adding it to RPM list
> in ltsp-build-client.
> 
> In lts.conf is then possible use all
> PRINTER_n_{DATABITS,DEBUG,DEVICE,FLOWCTRL,PARITY,SPEED,TYPE,WRITE_ONLY}
> variables as in LTSP 4.
> (patch adjust mismatch in nbd-client and nbdswapd communication
> port as well)
> 
> I hope this may be useful for k12ltsp project.
> 
> Frantisek Hanzlik
> 
> 
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