Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2441 mails)

[Sean Rima <thecivvie@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 17 June 2005 00:12, Ken Schneider wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 22:41 +0100, Sean Rima wrote:
> > On Thursday 16 June 2005 22:26, Ken Schneider wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 22:14 +0100, Sean Rima wrote:
> > > > I have a Epson Aculaser C900 laser printer on a XP box which I want
> > > > to print to from my linux laptop. Anyone know of an howto for this
> > > > setup
> > >
> > > Hummm.
> > >
> > > Share the printer from XP and configure as an smb printer in cups?
> >
> > Tried that and when I do a test print, all I get in the XP server thingy
> > is Error - Printing - Spooling. I have a feeling that this printer cannot
> > be used as such
>
> Did you try using different drivers in cups?
>

Yeah, I looked then at the cups site and it says it is not supported as such, 
I then checked google and there is a cups ppd on sf.net but it needs a set of 
rpms that require lpr to be installed and lpr cannot be on the same system as 
cups according to yast. So I will have to do more checking

Sean