[H-GEN] setting up a printer

[Richard]

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: Harry Phillips
To: general at lists.humbug.org.au
Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 2:24 PM
Subject: Re: [H-GEN] setting up a printer


>> 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.

Yeah, that's what I thought but when I set the printer up as a network
printer connected through another Windows computer, it allowed me to do
everything as if it was local. However, when I connected the same printer to
RH, I can't do much at all. For example, I tried changing the number of
copies in Acrobat and got a message saying that "This printer cannot support
this many copies. Number of copies will be set to the printer maximum of 1."
(It seems to only do this in the programs that tell the printer to print
multiple copies, instead of just sending the job multiple times.) And also,
the option that normally appears in the printing propertes/preferences box
to allow you to choose to print "front to back" or "back to front" doesn't
even appear, which is very annoying!

>> 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

I'm using 1.110 which is the latest version.

>> 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).

As I said, if you can tell me how you would go about setting up a printer, I
can try it that way and see how it goes.

Cheers, Richard



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