Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (180 mails)

[ptaylor <ptaylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all:

I know that Chris Dawkins (et al?) will say, "if it aint broke, don't fix it", 
or words to that effect, but...
I had a nice relationship, if such a thing can be, between SuSE 7.1 and Win 
2000.  I have the Linux box upstairs as a server with an HP 670 DeskJet 
attached and used to happily send files to it to print from the Win 2000 
machine downstairs.  I am still lumbered with a windoze set up at school for 
now so need this set up.
This was working well until I dutifully up-graded to 7.2.  I loaded up Samba 
2.2 and other "improvements" and since then I have not been able to get my 
printer to work.  W2K sees it but refuses to load drivers for it.  It is fine 
sending files to the SuSE box etc.  
I saw one how to that said I need a PRINT$ directory in smb.conf with a 
"sub-directory pointing to x86 files" but after following it dutifully, I was 
still no closer.  I have used combinations of 2.0.9, 7.1 SuSE ad nauseum but 
still no joy.  Can anyone point me in the right direction to solving this 
one??

Paul
Extra details gladly submitted on demand.