On Tuesday 21 September 2004 01:17 am, Christian Benito wrote: > I have small network, two windows 2000 boxes and a debian box. The > two windows machines share a laser printer that is attached to one of > them. I'd like to be able to print from the debian machine too. Can > anybody give me a pointer on how to get that working?
Remove any eyeglasses, hats, caps, earrings, etc. Now place your forehead flat against any nearby wall. Pivot your body back at the waist a bit, then slam your head forcefully into the wall. Repeat this until you either lose consciousness, or you decide you don't want to try to get Linux to print to a Windows printer.
:)
(It can be done in theory. If you can find a set of instructions that will actually get you there, you should turn around and go buy a lottery ticket while you're at it. You'll probably win big.)
(As a disclaimer, I should add that my own experiences were probably tainted by the particularly obscure nature of the printer I was trying to get working in this fashion. Obviously the instructions I found were an afterthought, extrapolated from other, related instructions, with a lot of "probably" and "this might work" and "try doing it like this" thrown in.)
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I have to say that I didn't have such terrible experiences as yourself, although I never got automatic installation of windows drivers to work. Once Samba was up it was just a quick grab of all the cups/foomatic printer stuff (including the megahuge package with all the drivers in it, which is probably cheating), a few lines in smb.conf and some confugling the in cups admin panel and I was away...!
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