PatMc wrote:
>
> I am trying to setup a printer on my 7.0 machine. The printer's in
> question are connected to samba machines on my home network. One is a
> 560c and the other is a Panasonic 2023 on separate machines. The box I'm
> trying to set up is dual boot and prints fine to either printer from
> win98.
>
> A printer was never configured on this box. I am using the printer
> configuration tool under DrakConf to set up a SMB printer. For some
> reason this is not working, the test page is not printed. Does printing
> need to be setup locally before I can print to the Samba machine (Like
> win98)
>
Your servers are Linux machines, and you run your client now under
Linux, too, all Mandrake 7.0. Why don't you try to choose "Remote LPD"
in the printer configuration tool? Then you will be asked for the IP of
the server (do ifconfig on the server and look for the IP at the entry
of your ethernet card) and for the printer queue ("lp" in most cases,
see the printer's entry in the /etc/printcap on the server) and you will
be able to access to the printers.
Samab is only needed for Windows machines to access to resources on
Linux servers or Linux machines to access to Windows servers.
Till
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