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At school I have setup a linux machine, and it will reccognise all the worksations (a good 2000 of them) however I can't find how to specify a printer.
In windows there's that find printer button, I use that and go through the list of networked printers (nearly 150) However I have not seen such a thing in Linux, I am using Mandrake 10 and KDE 3.1
Thanks for the help
Matt
Have you tried using the "kprinter" utility? You may also want to check to see if you have "cups" running... I've got a similar setup, and I can print without any problems (though, I admit, it took some fiddling before I was able to do it ) I'm not at home at the moment to check, but you'll most likely need to know the IP address of the printer you're interested in using, as well as the printer make/model, and insure that there's a Linux printer driver for that printer... I believe kprinter handles alot of those setup issues.
Well I was looking at the kprinter thing and it looks like it will do the trick, however it does say cups is not running (how did you know?! ) Anyways then I tried QUOTE]smbclient //work/winlp -l /tmp -c "print /tmp/printbuff.txt ; exit " -N[/QUOTE]
This one could not successfully connect to my network, looks like it immediatly gets denyd (probably a firewall) Anyways, how do I get cups running?
Originally posted by Omnica ...Anyways, how do I get cups running?
There should be a "cups" (Common Unix Printing System) package you can install, possibly off your CD - I'm running Slackware, so I'm not exactly sure how you'd do it in Mandrake. You can also go here: http://www.cups.org/
Just got home. For Slackware 10, at least, the cups system is installed as a package called "cups-1.1.20-i486-1". Hope this helps
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) I'm not at home at the moment to check, but you'll most likely need to know the IP address of the printer you're interested in using, as well as the printer make/model, and insure that there's a Linux printer driver for that printer... I believe kprinter handles alot of those setup issues.
