Keywords: printers, printing, printer, samba, SMB, Epson Stylus Photo 820 I don't think the Windows host filters for you, so you need to filter the data locally on the Linux box.
-Mark On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Richard S. Crawford wrote: > Are you guys getting tired of me and my constant questions yet? > > Today I purchased an Epson Stylus Photo 820 printer. I purchased this > printer for two reasons: first, I knew that it would work in our setup with > two win98 machines and a win2k machine; and second, because according to > http://www.linuxprinting.org, the Linux driver for this particular printer > works "perfectly". > > I have the printer now hooked up to one of our Windows 98 computers. It > works perfectly when I'm running Windows 2000 on this computer, and it > works perfectly when my wife prints to it from her Windows 98 > computer. But when I try to print from RH7.2 on my computer, the following > happens: one sheet feeds all the way through, and another sheet feeds > halfway through and then stops. > > I used printtool to select Windows printer and a Samba connection. I went > ahead and selected "Raw print queue" on the theory that the data would end > up being filtered twice on its way to the printer if it also went through > the driver on the windows 98 computer (though I also tried it with several > different drivers selected). > > In the print monitor window on the windows 98 computer which hosts the > printer, nothing shows up for the spool. All of this leads me to believe > that there might be something screwy in my samba configuration, but who can > say for sure? Any thoughts or suggestions before I start screwing around > with my samba configuration files? > > Oh, and Peter... Sorry to take so long to get back to you on this, but > yes, I do play D&D. Or I did. I fell out for a long time to indulge in > LARP, and then I got involved in Call of Cthulhu. Now a buddy of mine and > I are creating an RPG of our own, so I've been play-testing that. Some > friends of mine are trying to set up a "gaming association" in > Davis. Would you be interested in hooking up with them? > > > > Sliante, > Richard S. Crawford > > http://www.mossroot.com > AIM: Buffalo2K ICQ: 11646404 Y!: rscrawford > MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "It is only with the heart that we see rightly; what is essential is > invisible to the eye." --Antoine de Saint Exup�ry > > "Push the button, Max!" > > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > -- Mark K. Kim http://www.cbreak.org/mark/ PGP key available upon request. _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
