Slightly digressing from this original thread. I have a network printer (Lexmark Optra S1250) which works fine from all of my Linux boxen on the network, and is shared out in Samba by one of the boxes.
My W2K installation can see it, can map it, calls for the drivers to be loaded from W2K no probs, but when I try to print it errors with something like "Cannot create page..." I'm wondering what I can do to diag the problem > > Configure the printer to act as an LPR as well as a WindoZe printer? > > A lot of "direct" network connection cards only run a WindoZe client by > default - consequently, any *nix box wanting to print to them has to A) > Run samba or similar, and print via the windoZe client in it, or B) muck > around wit hthe printer to enable LPR mode. > > You didn't mention the type of printer, so I can't detail further, but I > know at least HP and Lexmark printers must have LPR mode explicitely > enabled before working. -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people Contact detail at http://www.lannetlinux.com "Life is like a hot bath - it's great when you're in it, but the longer you stay the more wrinkled you become." - Garfield -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
