What protocol does the printer use to send it data?
If MSW clients are using the URL? (What is it look like by the way?)
If your URL looks like
\\Printer\something
then you have a MSWindows non-URL URL look-a-like.
This would mean your printer is using SMB to communicate.
You'll need Samba (samba.org) to get your RH box to communicate via SMB.
RH also provides Samba RPMs to install, use those while your new...compiling
and the other fun stuff from source can come later.
If the printer is using some other mechanism (read the printer docs) or
supports HPJetDirect then you'll have no problem finding the package.
/B
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Phelps" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 15:50
Subject: Network printer . . . sort of
> Hi,
>
> I'm the rankest of newbies, so bear with me please.
>
> I'm trying to get this Linux RH box to print to a "network" printer. I
> have no idea what this configuration will suggest to anyone, but if you
> can make sense of it, and help me print from here . . . then you're the
> man ... or . . . woman. Yeah.
>
> Here's the deal:
>
> Cable modem -> Linksys router -> 4 workstations + Lexmark Optra printer.
>
> No. Neither print nor file sharing are enabled anywhere. All the msw
> boxes just print to the printer's url.
>
> This is the only Linux box in the place: just experimenting with the OS
> for fun. I can ping the printer, but I have no clue how to actually
> print to it from here.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Mark
>
>
>
>
>
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