A while back my epson stylus color 400 printer died and since then I've been trying to setup printer off a printer shared from a local winbox.
I used printerdrake (or whatever the mandrake printer tool is called) to try to setup the printer. Its an Apollo P-2250 (cheap piece of winprinter junk). The closest printer which mandrake seems to support is an Apollo P-2200 (the printer under windows does use P-2200 drivers.... and thus I think would under linux as well) which www.linuxprinting.org lists as mostly supported. Whenever I try to print though I get not a peek from the printer. The only thing that really comes to mind is that no password is specified for the share (yes.... it's password-protected) in the cups printer file. I did input a password in printerdrake so I'm guessing its just stored elsewhere. Accessing any of the other shares using smbclient works fine. I don't know if it's required when cups is used.... but /etc/printcap looks kinda weird (ie. close to empty). Is that the cause of the trouble? David Aikema Contents of /etc/cups/printers.conf: --- <DefaultPrinter apollo_normal> Location Office DeviceURI smb://AIKEMA/compname/APOLLO State Idle Accepting Yes JobSheets none none </Printer> <Printer epson_normal> DeviceURI parallel:/dev/lp0 State Idle Accepting Yes JobSheets none none </Printer> --- /etc/printcap --- apollo_normal: epson_normal: --- _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
