just wondering why, when running Printing Manager, that all my "backend selection" are greyed out when running the add printer wizard...
so i can't add any printers. currently running mandrake 8.2, just installed cups common. printer is physically connected to a win98 pc, with print and file sharing enabled, and printer-sharing is working on another pc running winxp mandrake and win98 is already sharing files thru samba. would appreciate any advice or pointers to other help sources/web-pages. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Derek Jennings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Mark Annandale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2002 6:11 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Printing to XP > On Saturday 18 May 2002 9:16 am, Mark Annandale wrote: > > Hi Guys > > > > Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but here goes. > > > > I am running Mandrake 8.2 with KDE3 and would like to print using a printer > > attached to the USB port on a PC running XP Pro. I can see and access all > > directories on the XP box as well as see and access shared directories on > > my Linux box. > > > > But I cannot get to print. I know the easiest thing to do is connect the > > printer to the linux box, but thats too easy, and besides the rest of my > > family would complain bitterly if I removed the printer from the little > > home network we have. > > > > Thank you and kind regards > > > > mark > > Have you enabled printer sharing in XP? > If so you should be able to see the printer when you browse your network with > Komba2 (or LinNeighborhood or Gnomba) > > Also kups or KDE Control Centre>System>Print Manager should show it in the > list of printers. > > derek > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > --
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