I recently installed Redhat 8.0 at home, but I can't figure out how to get my printer installed. I installed the hpijs file that went with my printer and the shit still doesn't work. I think something may be wrong with my ghostscript or I just don't know what the hell I am doing. Any suggestions? If I am going to be networking this printer, should I also install samba? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/pipermail/general_brlug.net/attachments/20030803/ff005542/attachment.htm From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Aug 4 04:08:52 2003 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeremy Bertrand) Date: Mon Aug 4 03:08:08 2003 Subject: [brlug-general] Linux Novice In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
a few questions: is the printer on the USB or parallel port ?? last i checked printer support on the USB ports was still not working good. but it's been a few months. getting printers to work on parallel is not too difficult ... you just make sure the distro has the required packages installed and choose the printer in the setup ( you can do this easily after installation if you have to just go through the online documentation for setting up printers) http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/getting-started-guide/ch-printconf.html has everything to show you how to get to the printer controls and adding a new local printer. this next one is how to modify an existing printer that was setup on the system already: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/getting-started-guide/s1-printconf-edit.html what you may need to do is get some literature on Linux. a local library should have some resourses, if not you can buy a good book for around $50 new (at least that was what i paid for Red Hat 5.2 Unleashed in 1997). to answer the other question ... YES you will need to install and setup samba if you want to share any resourses on your machine with any M$ based system ( 9x, NT, 2k, xp, etc ) which btw if its done right you could get a MS based server to pool the connections to your machine to just one connection to the server ... while it is connected to your local desktop system ... the windows servers are able to make a connection to a printer remotely and it act as if it is connected directly to the server itself. jeremy btw -- the red hat 8 manual may have been installed on your system when you installed it if not here you go http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/ samba http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/ documents pages on the US mirror. the samba site has the man pages from SAMBA_2_2 which i assume is samba release 2 version 2. hopefully the latest release. At 05:37 PM 8/3/2003 -0500, you wrote: >I recently installed Redhat 8.0 at home, but I can't figure out how to get >my printer installed. I installed the hpijs file that went with my >printer and the shit still doesn't work. I think something may be wrong >with my ghostscript or I just don't know what the hell I am doing. Any >suggestions? If I am going to be networking this printer, should I also >install samba? >_______________________________________________ >General mailing list >[email protected] >http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/pipermail/general_brlug.net/attachments/20030804/2ebbf7c5/attachment.htm From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Aug 4 11:11:46 2003 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brad N Bendily) Date: Mon Aug 4 10:10:45 2003 Subject: [brlug-general] Novell buys Ximian. Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This is a step in the right direction for Novell. http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr=novell -- Brad Bendily - CNA
