GOT IT!!! WOO HOO!! I'm gonna get this Linux thing . . .or it's gonna get me!
Told the printer config that it was an lpd queue (I still don't know what that means, but I'll learn), and then took the "http://"; out of the printer's url -- and voila!! Sheesh. I actually got one thing to work. But it's encouraging. Now if I can just get WordPerfect to install. I keep getting told that I need other stuff. Arrgghh. But ....I've got a printer now! Mark On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 21:10, Mark Phelps wrote: > Okay, > > Thanks for your patience (if you're still there). Protocol . . .I'm not > sure what that means. (Told you I'm a rank newbie). It goes through > the nic into the cable into the router into the printer. Is that > TCP/IP? I have no clue. The url looks like http://192.168.1.10 > > Does any of this help? > Mark > On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 19:04, David Busby wrote: > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > redhat-list mailing list > > > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > > > > > > -- > > redhat-list mailing list > > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > > > > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
