Try moving the printer to the Linux box, and printing from the windows box. Set up printer sharing with Samba, Uninstall the printer software/drivers from the windows box and re-install a freshly-updated set of drivers from HP's web-site- www.hp.com . Lanman On Sunday 16 September 2001 01:08 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: > On Sunday 16 September 2001 12:29, you wrote: > > On Sun, 2001-09-16 at 02:11, Dennis Myers wrote: > > > Hi all, I have finally come very close to getting an HP 712c deskjet > > > printer working with my linux computer by using Samba. The HP is > > > connected to a windows box as a local printer. I can send a print > > > command from Kmail and it will print most of the header and then fail. > > > Windows ctrl-alt-del tells me it is a rundll32 error or something to > > > that effect. It is strange that it would start the printing, in color > > > no less, and then crash on me. Any ideas or other info needed for help? > > > TIA > > > > Dennis, > > > > Do you have the same problem printing from other Linux apps? If the > > error is in run32.dll, then it appears to be a Windows issue, and not a > > Linux one. If your printer actually starts printing, then cups and Samba > > have both done their jobs: cups has generated a print file, and samba > > has sent it to the share print queue. At this point, printing the file > > is up to Windows and the printer driver installed on the Windows PC. > > > > There are other possible issues to be aware of, however. For example, if > > the cups print driver generates a "corrupt" print file (i.e., one that > > the printer is unable to understand), then you might see printer errors > > on your Windows PC because it doesn't manifest itself until the print > > job has begun. > > > > Do you run into similar issues (with run32.dll) when printing from > > Windows apps? and again, do other Linux apps cause similar printing > > errors? > > > > Let us know. > > > > Dave > > ---------------------------------------- > Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="Attachment: 1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Content-Description: > ---------------------------------------- > I tried printing from kword and got the same thing but also see a message > that says "Hpfbkg13 this program has performed an illigal operation...blah > blah blah.." So it appears that the rundll is tied to the Hewlet Packard > software and when it comes to windows I don't know how to fix it other than > uninstalling and reinstalling the HP software. I may try that. I agree > that it doesn't look like a Samba or linux problem. Life is good just don't > weaken. ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: ----------------------------------------
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