Shawn, Sorry for the tardy reply, busy with work yesterday.
1. Lexmark Z52 printer Like I mentioned at the meeting, you probably want to search through the archives of any staroffice mailing list or newsgroup for printer tech support questions. Another member on the list recently had a problem concerning a Lexmark printer and solved it, though it wasn't associated with Star Office. Since Lexmark is a spinoff of IBM, you might try finding out what the similar IBM model is and checking to see if that model appears in your list of printers for SO. Also, is there a postscript mode for your printer? I'd be surprised if SO didn't support some basic postscript mode. 2. Netscape Mail I suspect this is a netscape.com problem, since you don't mention that general web browsing is not working. Pinging ok (ping home.netscape.net)? I don't see how some config issue on Linux would affect this, but I've been accused of dullness before. Somebody educate me. 3. Saving files to a floppy disk I've had weird root and normal user problems before with SO and don't remember if I resolved them or not. I haven't used SO in a couple of months. I believe the problem is the result of how SO is installed, though I would have to test it to make sure. In any case, Linux provides many ways to solve this problem: a. run SO as root (prb not safe) b. give user write access to /dev/fd0 (prb what you want, look at /etc/fstab) c. set suid on the command that SO uses to save to floppy for user (um, prb not practical) d. figure out problem from source (left as exercise for the reader) Does the same problem occur with the latest version of SO (6.0b?)? Good luck! John Hebert > -----Original Message----- > From: Shawn Hudson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 11:36 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [brluglist] A Few Simple Questions > > > I've just installed SuSe 6.2 and I'm having a few problems with it: > > 1. I have a Lexmark Z52 printer that is supported by > everything except > StarOffice. Now, I tried using printer setup in StarOffice, > but after I > follow the instructions and set up the generic lp as my > printer, I still > have a problem. StarOffice will only print out a few lines of text > before my printer stops in its tracks. Any suggestions? > > 2. I'm using Netscape Mail, but as of now, everytime I > attempt to click > the WebMail link on the top bar in Navigator, I get a message saying > "The connection was refused when attempting to contact > home.netscape.net." > > 3. Saving files to a floppy disk - how do you do it? When I > attempt to > save to the floppy from StarOffice, it says something about me having > insufficient user rights. Is there a way that I can remain > in superuser > mode throughout. Security precautions may be useful for business but > it's annoying me at the moment. > > Well, that's about all I can think of now. > > Thanks for any help you can give, > Shawn Hudson > > > > > > ================================================ > BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group > Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. > Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change > your subscription information. > ================================================ > ================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change your subscription information. ================================================
