[H-GEN] setting up a printer

[Harry Phillips]

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Richard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Could someone please tell me how to go about setting up a printer to use in
> Red Hat 9 as well as being able to print to it from Windows computers.

Well you have two options here, make it so that Windows can print to 
Unix like print queues, or enable samba on the RH server to allow 
Windows PC's to print to the printer.

I would recommend the later, you should know by now how hard it is for 
MS to implement an accepted standard :)

> 
> I did have something going but it didn't work properly through Windows
> (couldn't change any options, eg number of copies, etc) so I want to know if
> there's another way to do it so it will work properly.
> 

Knowing what you already had setup would help. What sort of printer do 
you have? Can you get RH to print to it? What sort of connection to the 
printer do you have? Are you using CUPS? LPRng? lpr?

-- 
Regards,
Harry Phillips
--- Failure is not an option,
     it comes bundled with your Microsoft product.


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