The current version of cups for SuSE does not allow me to select printing to a printer hooked up to a Win98 machine. How do I fix this? Should I get the rpms from the CUPS site and completely remove the rpms that SuSE provides? NeoFax
The current version of cups for SuSE does not allow me to select
a printer hooked up to a Win98 machine. How do I fix this? Should I get
rpms from the CUPS site and completely remove the rpms that SuSE
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NeoFax
I had a lot of problems getting my SuSE boxes to print properly to Windows print servers using either CUPS, LPRold or LPRng. The solution I received from someone else on this list (whom I would credit if I hadn't accidently deleted the email) was dependent on using the right samba rpms. Just as an aside - you do have samba installed? I found that using either the samba-2.0.7-72.rpm or samba-2.0.9.rpm would allow me to print to a windows print server using LPRold, LPRng or CUPS. However, the samba-2.0.7-107.rpm that comes with SuSE 7.1 or the samba-2.0.8.rpm from the SuSE 7.1 update ftp site would not print properly at all. I would try to print a test page and would get several pages with a small block of the test page on each sheet. My suggestion would be to use YAST1 to install the samba-2.0.9.rpm from the SuSE 7.0 update site, then use YAST2 to install the Windows based printers. That works very well for me to a variety of postscript and non-postscript printers on the windows network here at work. Hope this helps, Mark
The current version of cups for SuSE does not allow me to select
a printer hooked up to a Win98 machine. How do I fix this? Should I get the rpms from the CUPS site and completely remove the rpms that SuSE
----- Original Message ----- From: "Milnes Terry SSgt 52 OSS/OSOMS" Monday, June 04, 2001 8:57 PM Subject: [SLE] CUPS and SAMBA Printer printing to provides?
NeoFax
I have printed with SuSE's CUPS and Samba to a win98-machines printer. It is on 7.1pro and the SuSE-update of Cups to 1.1.6. Probably with SuSE's Samba 2.0.7 and the original samba-tarball of Samba 2.2.0. mvh... Morten Christensen
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On 6/4/01, 2:57:14 PM, Milnes Terry SSgt 52 OSS/OSOMS <terry.milnes@SPANGDAHLEM.af.mil> wrote regarding [SLE] CUPS and SAMBA Printer:
The current version of cups for SuSE does not allow me to select printing to a printer hooked up to a Win98 machine. How do I fix this? Should I get the rpms from the CUPS site and completely remove the rpms that SuSE provides?
NeoFax
No, you just need to add a link in the right place. Buried deep in the documentation for CUPS I found this: To configure CUPS for SAMBA, run the following command: ln -s `which smbspool` /usr/lib/cups/backend/smb ENTER After you do this, restart cups ('/etc/init.d/cups restart') and you should see the option for an SMB printer in the printer setup. Daniel
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