Hi all, I've been trying to configure CUPS to add network printer on windows machine without success. Right now I use mcc (yes it's mdk :)) to set it up, but when I click "search", there's nothing shows up. This is also the reason as you know why I try to "migrate" to Suse by dualbooting it in hda10 :) But using Yast, I can't find the network printer either :( I can add the printer directly by typing //pcname/printername, but CUPS doesn't ask me for printer brand and type at all. And, when I try to print to it, the data transfer lamp on the printer blinks but nothing is printed. Can you help me here pls? What steps should I take to add network printer in Mdk. Can Yast do it out of the box? I have samba installed, but I haven't touched the conf file. Pls help me to love linux more :) -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux2.arinet.org 04:47:57 up 7:44, Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Official) for i586 public key: https://www.arinet.org/fajar-pub.key
On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 16:58, Fajar Priyanto wrote:
Hi all, I've been trying to configure CUPS to add network printer on windows machine without success. Right now I use mcc (yes it's mdk :)) to set it up, but when I click "search", there's nothing shows up.
Are you trying to add it as a network printer or smb printer?
This is also the reason as you know why I try to "migrate" to Suse by dualbooting it in hda10 :) But using Yast, I can't find the network printer either :( I can add the printer directly by typing //pcname/printername, but CUPS doesn't ask me for printer brand and type at all. And, when I try to print to it, the data transfer lamp on the printer blinks but nothing is printed.
Can you help me here pls? What steps should I take to add network printer in Mdk.
Not sure if you will find much help here on installing a printer in Mandrake. There may be some that moved here from Mdk.
Can Yast do it out of the box? I have samba installed, but I haven't touched the conf file.
Until you at least setup the workgroup it will not find anything. If you setup a windows PC but don't set the proper workgroup does it see the network? No, it needs to be setup properly first. The same is true with suse or any flavor of linux. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 * Only reply to the list please* "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge
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