On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, you wrote: > I have Mandrake 7.2 installed and I have an HP Laserjet 4050TN on the > same Ethernet network that I'd like to be able to print to. I presume that you installed CUPS, with this I got it working anyway There are two ways in which you can do this: a) TCP/IP connection (printer independently on the network) For this you need to have the printer properly setup as a printserver (default it is not activated). You can do this through the LCD-panel on the printer. See the manual or the website of HP for more info on that. Once configured the printer you can need to now its hostname and on which TCP/IP port it is listening for print-requests. Select "Printer Configuration" in DrakConf. Select "Add" | Select "Remote Printer" | Select "Network printer (Socket)" Give the name of the printer (lp0, lp1 etc). The location & description are just labels. Then give the hostname & port of the printer. Last, choose the correct driver. The Laserjet4000 & 4050N are listed and will work perfectly. Done. b) Through a Windows print-server For this you need to know the server-name, the sharename of the printer and a valid user-account which has print-rights on the server. Select "Printer Configuration" in DrakConf. Select "Add" | Select "Remote Printer" | Select "SMB/Windows 95/98/NT" Give the name of the printer (lp0, lp1 etc). The location & description are just labels. Then give the hostname of the server, it IP-address, the Share-name and the account information etc etc
