On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 23:08, John Andersen wrote:
On Tuesday 30 December 2003 07:37, Kenneth Schneider wrote:
You will also need to install and configure samba in order to be able to use the printers on a linux machine. www.samba.org has a lot of documentation as well as www.cups.org.
Ken
I'm sorry Ken but that it just not true. And it hasn't been true for a long long time.
All Win2k and later come with IPP print capability built in. You just configure it as a network printer and give http://yourlogin:password@your-linux-box:631/printers/printer-name as the printer url.
If the printer has a network card like a HP Jetdirect you can also configure your computer to print directly the printer and bypasss the Samba server altogether. In the setup printer wizard choose local printer then create a new local port. Enter the IP address of the printer and Windows will attempt to detect which type of network interface the printer has. (I have never had it fail to detect a HP Jetdirect printer.) Choose the appropriate printer driver when prompted and you should be good to go.
For win98 you need to download the wpnpins.exe file to get the IPP drivers. Best to squirel these away, since MS announced the demise of Win98. Those drivers also work on win95.
HP also has a software product called Install Network Printer Wizard
that will work with HP printers. They have version for Win95 that was
last updated in Jan 2002 and a version for Win98 and later that was last
updated Sept 2003.
Goto this page http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/en/support.html and
enter Install Network Printer Wizard in the search dialog box and it
will take you right to it.
HTH
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Chuck Stuettgen