On Saturday 25 Jan 2003 5:57 pm, Larry Williams wrote: > 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. > Don't give up yet. Some of our most experienced posters will be around, probably this evening. There could be much better advice.
Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302
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