On Saturday 25 January 2003 09:47, Anne Wilson wrote: > This is better news. Mandrake must be providing a suitable driver. OK - > when I tried to print over the lan, only a couple of weeks ago, I had much > the same problem. I eventually got as far as having a readable file in a > spool directory, but still couldn't get it to print. On the advice of > Stephen Kuhn, I installed the windows driver on the windows machine, saying > that I wanted to install over the network. I can't recall the exact > sequence, but it then allows you to browse to the printer on the host > machine, in my case it's //anne-linux/printer. Go throught the whole > normal installation, but don't print a test page. Take the re-boot, then > call up the printer in the usual My Computer/Printers folder, and print a > test page from there. > > It worked for me > > Anne
Hi Anne. Yes, I've done this as well. Before I installed Mandrake 9 I was using Red Hat 7.3. It came with lprng and CUPS, and I couldn't get CUPS to work then either. But lprng worked just fine. I thought I could go get lprng and put it on Mandrake, but I ran into roadblocks: The source won't compile because (I believe) I'm not using an ANSI C compiler (just gcc that came with Mandrake) and the RPM is too specific to Red Hat and I couldn't get the dependencies to load (one was older than an existing package and the two necessary libraries aren't part of the new package). So unless I can upgrade my printer (which may happen in the next month along with a system upgrade), I'm open to alternative print spoolers, or PDQ if I can properly configure Samba. Thanks, Larry
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