And where's my Dell laser printer?
Another thing: I just bought a Dell laser printer, and hooked it up to my Windows PC. I want to share it with my Linux machine. How does one get Linux drivers for such a printer, and set it up? Thanks again!
|
If you're sharing it over a network, you'll have to set up samba on the linux box. Then you can use the printer as you would from another windows machine on the network (using netbios). If you don't want samba you could look into getting a print server program for your windows machine so linux can connect to it directly without netbios. Drivers come with linux, i.e. it has it's own, and there's a high probability that there'll be a driver for your printer...
|
OK...I have samba set up and can share files between Linux and Windows. How do I tell it to share printers as well? Thanks.
|
If you want to share a printer attached to the linux machine you'll have to edit the samba configuration file. If the printer is on the windows machine you just add the printer through yast or the cups configuration. Cups has a web configuration utility, accessible through http://localhost:631
|
I tried the Cups configuration utility. It asks me to log in, but I've never used it before and don't have a password. Is there a default or something? Thanks.
|
Quote:
|
On my box, that doesn't work. I'm signed in as root. I go to 631 and try to sign in as root there. It rejects the password.
Sigh. |
Quote:
just my :twocents:, good luck... |
I'll try it. Thanks.
|
All times are GMT -5. The time now is 12:06 PM. |