[H-GEN] setting up a printer

[Harry Phillips]

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Richard wrote:
> 
> It's an HP DeskJet.
> I set it up with a print queue and couldn't get CUPS to work so I switched
> to LPRng and it worked. I've printed a test page from RH but that's all.

Well at least RH can print to it.

> However, I want Windows to recognise it more like it does a network printer
> on another Windows computer.

Not quite possible, you can however configure samba to have the printer 
drivers available so that when you add the network printer from Windows 
the drivers are install automagically.

It's possible but I haven't invested enough time into it... yet.

> At the moment I can print, but I can't delete
> jobs, specify number of copies, choose printing prefs, etc.

Is that in Windows or RH? The number of copies etc are normally provided 
by the app or driver, not the print queue. The print queue will just 
accept whatever you send it (via samba or LPRng) and spit out to the 
printer.

> So I'm thinking
> Samba would be the best way to go. But I don't know how to do it. I use
> Webmin coz it's much easier for me at the moment but when I try to use the
> printer module in it, it says 'failed to save printer'. So I'm stumped.

What version of Webmin, I would suggest downloading the latest version 
of www.webmin.com

It's a really cool tool if you want client's to be able to admin their 
own users but not be able to fsck the system.

> I'm happy to delete the printer setup I currently have and start fresh if it
> may work better (I'm assuming I did something wrong and I'd rather have it
> the Samba way).
> 
> Richard

Couple of other things, please don't top post, trim your posts and make 
your responses in between like I do, it makes for easier reading.

Add two dashes and a space above your sig and decent client's will trim 
everything below it automatically.

> 
>>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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