On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:58:28 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: [...] >>> I have a suggestion....Attach the printer to just one machine, and >>> then set it up to share and then connect each machine to it via the >>> network. That might help a whole lot and cut down on the messages. I >>> hardly ever see those things if at all. >> >> <sigh> "Set it up to share"?? Has that gotten any easier in >> recent years -- since the last time I gave up trying?? >> > Yes, it has. With a Linux machine host, you just set it up in CUPS. On > the rest of the Linux machines, you can have CUPS search the network and > it will find the printer. For XP, you will want to install an IPP > interface printer. If you really want to, and you have Samba running on > the host machine, you can share that way too, but it is more work. Man, it must have! The last time (about FC3 iirc), a friendly soul spent days trying to walk me through it, and finally had to quit before we ever got it to work. After that, I also tried buying a hardware printserver -- and never managed to get that to work, either... Poking around, I can't tell# CUPS whether what I got into was CUPS or not. $ cups, $ CUPS, # cups, and # CUPS all get "command not found." (rpm -q does tell me I have cups-1.3.9-1.fc9.i386) So I started looking in the Main Menu. The likeliest launcher, afaict, points to /usr/bin/system-config-printer; is that it? I hit the usual glass wall with that -- asking me things in jargon, as if being English words made their technical sense plain. I remember there was a way to make at least some browsers handle the configuration -- but not how to launch it; maybe that has gotten easier, too. Do you have a favorite tutorial on the web somewhere? I know there are some -- which looked a bit daunting last time I saw them... -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
