Nicholas Fong maintains an excellent Linux print server how-to that includes detailed instructions on configuring different client operating systems to print to raw socket printers.

Having set up the client, try to print to the server. If you get no print out, it's time to start troubleshooting.

Note that the second Standard TCP/IP printer you configure on a Microsoft 2000/XP may refuse to accept the printer port name and IP address that you specify (because they duplicate the first printer). Just give it a dummy name and continue. Go back after you are finished and change the IP address and port name to whatever values you want to give them. Make sure that you set the correct port number for the device you want to print to on the server.

Setting up Red Hat Linux 8 and 9 clients is easy. Presumably other Linux distros are as easy too, though these instructions have only been tested on Red Hat Linux 8 and 9.

Both Red Hat 8 and 9 have printing configuration applications in Gnome's Systems Settings menu. This tool makes printer set-up pretty much the same between the two versions even though Red Hat 8 used lpd as its default printing system while Red Hat 9 uses CUPS.

From the printing configuration tool, use the "Add" button to start the wizard that guides you through the rest of the setup. From there the steps are quite obvious but make sure you have selected JetDirect as the printing type, set the IP address of the Bering server as the printer "Name", and that you have selected the correct printer driver. You may need to experiment with printer drivers before you have success. This is because there may be several drivers available for each printer and because - in Red Hat's case at least - the printing configuration tool seems to need to have changes saved, be closed and reopened and the configuration checked before it truly saves the chosen driver.