Darren, I read everything that everyone here posted. I spent countless hours, following all the suggestions on how to make it work. I tried the jetdirect route, the gimp print route, the Samba route, and things that seemed absolutely impossible (and were), and nothing worked. The only sucess I had was to be able to print from the PC to the Mac. Going the other way flat out wouldn't work. In fact, I couldn't even get the PC to print to the Canon printer that was attached to the JetDirect--the Mac wasn't even involved in that arrangement.
All I'm saying is that Mac to Mac print sharing is the most painless, simple thing. Why does it have to be so complicated to do it across platforms? I admit, I don't have a second PC with which to try printer sharing PC to PC. And maybe the problem is solely in the Canon printer--I don't know. See more comments below: On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 11:56:52 +1100, Darren wrote: > Gretchen Summers wrote: > >> I realize we are working with two different platforms, but I think >> Windows could learn something from Mac printer sharing. > > What would that be, set your printer to share and then find it > network neighborhood. No actually, turn on printer sharing on the PB, and the printers just show up! I didn't even have to go looking for a neighborhood, the choices are just there when I choose print. > > Of the two machines, pc and mac which *could* share the others printer? The Mac can share it's printer with the PC. Of the instructions I found to try to get this thing to work, there were 1-2 pages of instructions for configuring the Mac to 5-6 pages of instructions for configuring the PC--and even when I followed those instructions explicitly--it didn't work!! I wouldn't know where to place the blame. > > Take a look see through the links I posted weeks ago and enjoy > reading through the wonders that have been x-platform printing under > OS X. > You may even uncover a gem about the Jetdirect and 10.2. We wont > mention the mess having macs on a network used to create. I wouldn't know anything about that. This world is primarily PC, and I've never heard of Macs even being included in a predominantly PC network. *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Gretchen Summers [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mac-N-DOS is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... / Buy books, CDs, videos, and more from Amazon.com \ / <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/lowendmac> \ Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Mac-N-DOS list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/mac-n-dos.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-n-dos%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
