On Sat, 24 Jul 2004, Dave Washburn wrote: > Hello, > I just took the plunge into Fedora Core 2 and I have a problem. The printer > in my house is on a Windows machine, hence I have to SAMBA to it from my > Linux box. When I was using Red Hat 9, I had no end of trouble trying to get > CUPS to talk to this printer. I finally used the print system switcher to > change it to LPRng, and the two machines lived happily after ever. > > When I moved to Fedora, I discovered to my chagrin that there was no LPRng > package listed, and the print system switcher only listed CUPS, which is > still giving me the same trouble as before. So I downloaded a tarball of > LPRng, built and installed it, but it still doesn't show up as an option for > printing systems; the print system switcher still only shows CUPS. But CUPS > can't find this printer on the (Windows) network, so I have no print > capability. I'd like to switch the system to LPRng rather than waste time > continuing to fight CUPS. Can somebody help me figure out how to accomplish > this? > > The printer is a Lexmark Z53 and the machine it's hooked to by USB is running > Windows XP Professional; Samba version is 3.0.3-5. Feel free to let me know > if any more info is needed. WinXP Pro may be able to spool to an LPR queue. Start the printer wizard, select "local printer" and create a new port. I don't recall the exact sequence after that, but you should see options to create a TCP/IP port and to use a LPR queue. On the CUPS side, enable cups-lpd in /etc/xinet.d and in system-config-printer and restart cups. This works for my Lexmark laser printer, but not for my HP DeskJet for some reason I haven't figured out yet. It is also possible to get CUPS to talk to SAMBA, but it does take a bit of work. I did it once long ago, and I don't recall the details. I found making Windows talk to LPR was easier. > > Thanks! > -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
