On Saturday 25 Jan 2003 4:50 pm, Larry Williams wrote: > Hi All. > > I'm new to this list, and I've checked the archives and tried all the > suggestions I've found, but I am still unable to printfrom either of my two > Win98 boxen. > > My Mandrake 9 machine has most of the packages installed but none are > upgraded yet. I'm using > kernel 2.4.19.16mdk > samba 2.2.6-1.0pre2.2mdk > CUPS 1.1.16-0.4mdk > > The network and firewall functions - all machines can use the internet > connection on the Linux box - but pings to the linux box fail. I don't > know if it's related, I doubt it, but just in case... > > I've created smb.conf based on a message in November by Anne Wilson, and my > cupsd.conf is based on several messages found here and elsewhere. I can > provide them if you like. > > The error I get is in cups/error-log. It states it is "unable to convert > file 0 to printable format" even though a raw file is sent and > application/octet-stream is enabled in both mime.* files. > > Any thoughts? Should I consider PDQ or find and install some other lp > daemon? If so, what print system should I define in Samba? > > Thanks in advance, > Larry
Hi, Larry. It's usually best to fix one problem at a time :) So, which is most urgent for you? I don't know much about firewall issues - my router takes care of that for me, so someone else will advise you there. It sounds to me as though that might be a good part of the issue. Also, is the printer physically attached to the linux box or some other? Can you print from the local printer? Is there no success at all, or is it networked printing that's the problem? What model printer is it. and how did you install it? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302
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