Re: How do I setup printer?
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 09:36:48AM -0400, Jan Sneep wrote: [please snip unnecessary bits!] I have it working, which is great, but now I'm wondering, what steps did I do that I didn't NEED to do to get this working, because I removed some entries from the smb.conf to get it exactly what was shown in the document, will I be missing some functionality that is put in by default that I might need down the road when I try and install some other software package and thus spend hours running around in circles trying to find some document some place that mentions that I need one of those lines that are now gone. Ahhh!!, first BEFORE you edit any config files make a copy first! Mine was a pure clean Etch install (only a couple of days old) and yet needed to cobble together a solution from two separate documents, both of which purported to HAVE the answer. Perhaps there should be an official ... Doing Basic Stuff in Debian ... icon on the default desktop that gets installed with Debian ... yes, there can be lots of discussion about what constitutes basic stuff, but adding a printer and sharing it across a LAN. IMHO, should have been as simple as checking a box labelled Share this Printer ? Share with Windows computers Yes/No? Do you want a password Yes/No?, etc and then have ALL the necessary changes made to the various config files. Once you know what to do it isn't difficult, but of course it is knowing what to do that is always the challenge isn't it? Sounds good. Now who is going to implement this? It is kinda like wandering around in Zelda trying to figure out what combination of hidden buttons to hit to un-lock the next room in the adventure ... only with Zelda the graphics are better ... :O) The graphics were better in Zork, well at least in my head. :-) -- Chris. == -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Mark Grieveson wrote in Article [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: You would be well served to learn to google-fu to help you with this stuff. I prefer mailing lists myself. It's more human, rather than the faceless, conglomerate google. Two things wrong with that statement: 1) It assumes the mailing list is your personal whipping boy and not a last resort (a bad assumption: smart (and thus listworthy) questions have an attempt at research backing them up in the first place. http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#before) 2) Google isn't a conglomerate. They just do internet stuff. GE would be a conglomerate (what with being in venture capital, storage, locomotive manufacturing, NBC, a wide variety of electrical devices, water desalinization...). -- Paul Johnson Email and IM (XMPP Google Talk): [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 23:59 -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote: You would be well served to learn to google-fu to help you with this stuff. I prefer mailing lists myself. It's more human, rather than the faceless, conglomerate google. The thing is, many times it is those same people's responses you find on google. This then causes them to re-iterate. Not that many mind it, though. -- greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key: 1024D/B524687C 2003-08-05 Fingerprint: E1D3 E3D7 5850 957E FED0 2B3A ED66 6971 B524 687C Alternate Fingerprint: 09F9 1102 9D74 E35B D841 56C5 6356 88C0 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
RE: How do I setup printer?
-Original Message- From: Andrew Sackville-West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: May 7, 2007 2:50 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: How do I setup printer? On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 02:07:44PM -0400, Jan Sneep wrote: From: Andrew Sackville-West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 06:52:50AM -0400, Jan Sneep wrote: That's a great tip ... now do you have any equally slick tip for getting Samba to share that printer to the rest of the computers on the LAN? I've http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/Debian-and-Windows-Shared- Printing.html http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Debian-and-Windows-Shared-Printing/shari ng_with_windows.html http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/425 I followed the steps in http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Debian-and-Windows-Shared-Printing/shari ng_with_window s.html to the letter and it didn't work. Luckily the http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/425 had the two lines I needed to add; Allow From 192.168.1.* in the /etc/cups/cupsd.conf file. and do chmod 777 /home/smbprint and now I can print from my Win Xp machine to a printer connected to my Debian server ... yeah !!! a couple things to note here: 1. I googled debian windows print samba and got those, and many other great hits, on the first page. You would be well served to learn to google-fu to help you with this stuff. There are *vast* quantities of really good linux info on the web, its just a matter of learning the right search terminology. Also, www.debian-administration.org is a great site and has a local search function as well. I use it often. 2. Many debian oriented guides are geared towards sarge. With etch out, we should see those starting to update, but it will be a while. you'll have to make various translations as you go along. Thanks for the tips Andrew ... but with all due respect ... IMHO ... basic stuff like sharing a printer on a small LAN SHOULDN'T be so complex nor require searching the WWW and the possible risks of getting bad information and trashing your system! I started my task of add this printer by following some advice from this list ... printconf ... then when that didn't work found the www.linux.org site which also gave some steps that should have worked, but because of not managing to get ANY software to work on my system for many months and having found that Debian documents found on the Internet do not always work as described, thought I'd better ask which of the steps identified NEED to be done. Turns out the answer was none of the above, new tip, for a browser interface to CUPS. Don't get me wrong, this is great, but hopefully you can appreciate how this might be frustrating and how I might not necessarily agree with your suggestion that I would be well served to learn to Google better ... :O) I have it working, which is great, but now I'm wondering, what steps did I do that I didn't NEED to do to get this working, because I removed some entries from the smb.conf to get it exactly what was shown in the document, will I be missing some functionality that is put in by default that I might need down the road when I try and install some other software package and thus spend hours running around in circles trying to find some document some place that mentions that I need one of those lines that are now gone. Mine was a pure clean Etch install (only a couple of days old) and yet needed to cobble together a solution from two separate documents, both of which purported to HAVE the answer. Perhaps there should be an official ... Doing Basic Stuff in Debian ... icon on the default desktop that gets installed with Debian ... yes, there can be lots of discussion about what constitutes basic stuff, but adding a printer and sharing it across a LAN. IMHO, should have been as simple as checking a box labelled Share this Printer ? Share with Windows computers Yes/No? Do you want a password Yes/No?, etc and then have ALL the necessary changes made to the various config files. Once you know what to do it isn't difficult, but of course it is knowing what to do that is always the challenge isn't it? It is kinda like wandering around in Zelda trying to figure out what combination of hidden buttons to hit to un-lock the next room in the adventure ... only with Zelda the graphics are better ... :O) My two cents for what they are worth, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do I setup printer?
I followed the steps in http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Debian-and-Windows-Shared-Printing/shari ng_with_window s.html to the letter and it didn't work. Luckily the http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/425 had the two lines I needed to add; Allow From 192.168.1.* in the /etc/cups/cupsd.conf file. and do chmod 777 /home/smbprint and now I can print from my Win Xp machine to a printer connected to my Debian server ... yeah !!! a couple things to note here: 1. I googled debian windows print samba and got those, and many other great hits, on the first page. You would be well served to learn to google-fu to help you with this stuff. There are *vast* quantities of really good linux info on the web, its just a matter of learning the right search terminology. Also, www.debian-administration.org is a great site and has a local search function as well. I use it often. 2. Many debian oriented guides are geared towards sarge. With etch out, we should see those starting to update, but it will be a while. you'll have to make various translations as you go along. Thanks for the tips Andrew ... but with all due respect ... IMHO ... basic stuff like sharing a printer on a small LAN SHOULDN'T be so complex nor require searching the WWW and the possible risks of getting bad information and trashing your system! All due respect noted and back atchya! ;) I agree, sharing a printer on a small little LAN should be easy, and in all reality, it *is*. The one we missed is through the localhost:631 interface of cups, in the manage server section is a check box for sharing the printer. I'm not sure how well that works with windows printers, but it does work. Remember that in linux there are *MANY* ways to skin the cat and you have to choose what works for you from among the many choices. When you first start, this is really overwhelming and frustrating. Later, when you've got a good handle on it all, you'll find its really easy. Why? Because you *know* what's going on and you can diagnose problems and fix them. The other option is the windows method (not flaming here) where everything is a button but you don't know what's going on under the hood. Sure it works, but when it breaks, what do you do? ' I started my task of add this printer by following some advice from this list ... printconf ... then when that didn't work found the www.linux.org site which also gave some steps that should have worked, but because of not managing to get ANY software to work on my system for many months and having found that Debian documents found on the Internet do not always work as described, thought I'd better ask which of the steps identified NEED to be done. Turns out the answer was none of the above, new tip, for a browser interface to CUPS. Don't get me wrong, this is great, but hopefully you can appreciate how this might be frustrating and how I might not necessarily agree with your suggestion that I would be well served to learn to Google better ... :O) I know its frustrating, and I don't disagree with some of your assessment there. Realise, though, that linux in general is a moving target. Its constantly being updated, changed, theoretically improved. That means that tips and docs you find on the web can be out of date. That doesn't mean they aren't valuable and can often provide clues on how to do something. If a suggested command doesn't work, a quick check of the manpage can often provide the necessary bits that have changed. Finally, I find that google gets more and more useful the more I learn about linux. A lot of it is learning the right search terminology. I have it working, which is great, but now I'm wondering, what steps did I do that I didn't NEED to do to get this working, because I removed some entries from the smb.conf to get it exactly what was shown in the document, will I be missing some functionality that is put in by default that I might need down the road when I try and install some other software package and thus spend hours running around in circles trying to find some document some place that mentions that I need one of those lines that are now gone. CUPS, and many parts of a linux system, are extremely versatile. THey can be used to do all sorts of thing that you'd not expect. You can personally host a full-blown website with forums, rss feeds, email gateways, the whole shebang right there on your home computer with free software. And it can scale right up to full blown enterprise level (whatever that means) solutions with ease. It is immensely powerful, but with that power comes *lots* of complexity, responsibility etc. Most thigns, though, have pretty sane defaults. Most things that are in config files by default reflect the default settings anyway, so you're probably fine. If you really want to, you could move aside your old smb.conf file and then dpkg-reconfigure samba to get the original back and try again from scratch.
RE: How do I setup printer?
That's a great tip ... now do you have any equally slick tip for getting Samba to share that printer to the rest of the computers on the LAN? I've gone to http://localhost:901/ and clicked on the Printer icon, but Samba can't seem to find the printer automatically and the help doesn't seem to be suggesting anything useful. -Original Message- From: Mark Grieveson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: May 6, 2007 10:42 PM To: debian-user Subject: RE: How do I setup printer? Now here is the weird thing ... I did a Gnome - Places - Find Files searching for ppd thinking that if there is an existing folder I should use it ... well along with a few other files it found in the /usr/share/ppd/foomatic-rip/linuxpriting.org-gs-builtin/Samsun g folder a file called Samsung-ML-2010-gdi.ppd.gz I'm assuming the printconf should have found this file and used it? So do I need to do something to get printconf to work? or do I continue with the Linux.org instructions and run alien and then dpkg? What's the best way to go? Jan In a web browser, try opening http://localhost:631/ This allows you to monitor and set up printers on your system. If you get nothing, make sure cupsys is installed, and then try again. Good luck. Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do I setup printer?
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 06:52:50AM -0400, Jan Sneep wrote: That's a great tip ... now do you have any equally slick tip for getting Samba to share that printer to the rest of the computers on the LAN? I've gone to http://localhost:901/ and clicked on the Printer icon, but Samba can't seem to find the printer automatically and the help doesn't seem to be suggesting anything useful. http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/Debian-and-Windows-Shared-Printing.html http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Debian-and-Windows-Shared-Printing/sharing_with_windows.html http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/425 A -Original Message- From: Mark Grieveson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: May 6, 2007 10:42 PM To: debian-user Subject: RE: How do I setup printer? Now here is the weird thing ... I did a Gnome - Places - Find Files searching for ppd thinking that if there is an existing folder I should use it ... well along with a few other files it found in the /usr/share/ppd/foomatic-rip/linuxpriting.org-gs-builtin/Samsun g folder a file called Samsung-ML-2010-gdi.ppd.gz I'm assuming the printconf should have found this file and used it? So do I need to do something to get printconf to work? or do I continue with the Linux.org instructions and run alien and then dpkg? What's the best way to go? Jan In a web browser, try opening http://localhost:631/ This allows you to monitor and set up printers on your system. If you get nothing, make sure cupsys is installed, and then try again. Good luck. Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: How do I setup printer?
* Jan Sneep [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070507 05:56]: That's a great tip ... now do you have any equally slick tip for getting Samba to share that printer to the rest of the computers on the LAN? I've gone to http://localhost:901/ and clicked on the Printer icon, but Samba can't seem to find the printer automatically and the help doesn't seem to be suggesting anything useful. Do you have the latest edition of the O'Reilly SAMBA book? It is available on-line without charge. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: How do I setup printer?
-Original Message- From: Andrew Sackville-West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: May 7, 2007 11:19 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: How do I setup printer? On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 06:52:50AM -0400, Jan Sneep wrote: That's a great tip ... now do you have any equally slick tip for getting Samba to share that printer to the rest of the computers on the LAN? I've gone to http://localhost:901/ and clicked on the Printer icon, but Samba can't seem to find the printer automatically and the help doesn't seem to be suggesting anything useful. http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/Debian-and-Windows-Shared- Printing.html http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Debian-and-Windows-Shared-Printing/shari ng_with_windows.html http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/425 A I followed the steps in http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Debian-and-Windows-Shared-Printing/sharing_with_window s.html to the letter and it didn't work. Luckily the http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/425 had the two lines I needed to add; Allow From 192.168.1.* in the /etc/cups/cupsd.conf file. and do chmod 777 /home/smbprint and now I can print from my Win Xp machine to a printer connected to my Debian server ... yeah !!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do I setup printer?
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 02:07:44PM -0400, Jan Sneep wrote: From: Andrew Sackville-West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 06:52:50AM -0400, Jan Sneep wrote: That's a great tip ... now do you have any equally slick tip for getting Samba to share that printer to the rest of the computers on the LAN? I've http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/Debian-and-Windows-Shared- Printing.html http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Debian-and-Windows-Shared-Printing/shari ng_with_windows.html http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/425 I followed the steps in http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Debian-and-Windows-Shared-Printing/sharing_with_window s.html to the letter and it didn't work. Luckily the http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/425 had the two lines I needed to add; Allow From 192.168.1.* in the /etc/cups/cupsd.conf file. and do chmod 777 /home/smbprint and now I can print from my Win Xp machine to a printer connected to my Debian server ... yeah !!! a couple things to note here: 1. I googled debian windows print samba and got those, and many other great hits, on the first page. You would be well served to learn to google-fu to help you with this stuff. There are *vast* quantities of really good linux info on the web, its just a matter of learning the right search terminology. Also, www.debian-administration.org is a great site and has a local search function as well. I use it often. 2. Many debian oriented guides are geared towards sarge. With etch out, we should see those starting to update, but it will be a while. you'll have to make various translations as you go along. A signature.asc Description: Digital signature
faceless google (was: Re: How do I setup printer?)
You would be well served to learn to google-fu to help you with this stuff. I prefer mailing lists myself. It's more human, rather than the faceless, conglomerate google. Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: How do I setup printer?
-Original Message-
From: Mark Grieveson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: May 5, 2007 7:41 PM
To: debian-user
Subject: Re: How do I setup printer?
The easiest way to set up a printer is to install the package
printconf, and then run it. It's a similar utility to alsaconf (that
sets up soundcards for you). The description for printconf is:
printconf - automatically configures USB and parallel
printers with CUPS
As root, in the terminal, just enter the command printconf. It should
work. It depends on what type of printer you have, though (some
printers, like Canon, don't work well with Linux, I find).
I thought this sounded like a good thing to try as I have a new Samsun
ML-2010 printer that I want to share from my Debian computer.
This is the error message that printconf generated for me;
Printer on usb:/dev/usb/lp0 was detected by Debian using the ad-hoc
method. Please submit the following information to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
autodetect
usb
commandsetGDI/commandset
manufacturerSamsung/manufacturer
modelML-2010/model
/usb
/autodetect
Printer database data:
{'autodetect': {u'usb': {u'ieee1284':
u'MFG:Samsung;CMD:GDI;MDL:ML-2010;CLS:PRINTER;STATUS:BUSY;'}},
'driver': u'splix',
u'drivers': [u'splix', u'gdi'],
u'functionality': u'A',
u'id': u'Samsung-ML-2010',
u'make': u'Samsung',
u'model': u'ML-2010'}
Configuring Samsung ML-2010 on usb:/dev/usb/lp0 with splix driver as
queue ml2010.
There is neither a custom PPD file nor the driver database entry contains
sufficient data to build a PPD file.
So after sending an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I went to
www.linux.org to see if I could find the print driver.
Yes, they have a driver listed for the Samsung ML-2010 and the steps look
fairly simple, but wanted to check with someone more experienced to make
sure I'm doing this the Debian way ... :O)
First off can anyone tell me if Etch is LSB-3.2 compliant?
From the Linux.org site;
Preparation of LSB-3.1-compliant distributions
These steps are not needed on LSB-3.2-compliant Linux distributions.
Add the LSB 3.2 requirements for printing by installing CUPS,
foomatic-filters, ESP GhostScript (on most distributions they are already
installed), and adding a directory and a link for the PPD files to be found
by CUPS:
On Ubuntu or Debian unstable you are done with this.
On any other distribution install the fhs-printingdirs package or do:
mkdir -p /usr/share/ppd
ln -s /usr/share/ppd /usr/share/cups/model/0-driverppds
It sounds like I don't need to do above, but just wanted to be 100% sure.
Now the next step from the linux.org site;
* Download the desired driver package. Take care of the system
architecture (normal PCs are x86 32 bit, most Macs are Power PC). If
your browser opens a media player plug-in, click the Back button of the
browser, right-click the link for the package, and choose Save as
* If you have a non-RPM-based distribution (Ubuntu, Debian, Slackware,
...), convert the downloaded driver package(s) with alien (the packages are
provided as RPM packages). Do (On Ubuntu, preceed the command by sudo, on
other distributions, run it as root):
alien --scripts name of the downloaded RPM package
* Install the driver package with the package installation tool provided
by your distribution. Use rpm for .rpm packages on distributions like Red
Hat/Fedora, Novell/SuSE, Mandriva, ... Use dpkg for .deb packages on
Ubuntu, Debian, ... The commands should look like this (execute the
appropriate command as root, or on Ubuntu preceeded by sudo):
rpm -Uvh name of the downloaded RPM package
dpkg -i name of the .deb package generated with alien
So I have downloaded the Splix-1.0.1-3lsb3.1.i486.rpm file ... Which folder
should I put it in? Should I use /usr/share/ppd with Debian so the printconf
command can find the files?
Now here is the weird thing ... I did a Gnome - Places - Find Files
searching for ppd thinking that if there is an existing folder I should use
it ... well along with a few other files it found in the
/usr/share/ppd/foomatic-rip/linuxpriting.org-gs-builtin/Samsung folder a
file called Samsung-ML-2010-gdi.ppd.gz
I'm assuming the printconf should have found this file and used it? So do I
need to do something to get printconf to work? or do I continue with the
Linux.org instructions and run alien and then dpkg? What's the best way to
go?
Jan
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RE: How do I setup printer?
Now here is the weird thing ... I did a Gnome - Places - Find Files searching for ppd thinking that if there is an existing folder I should use it ... well along with a few other files it found in the /usr/share/ppd/foomatic-rip/linuxpriting.org-gs-builtin/Samsung folder a file called Samsung-ML-2010-gdi.ppd.gz I'm assuming the printconf should have found this file and used it? So do I need to do something to get printconf to work? or do I continue with the Linux.org instructions and run alien and then dpkg? What's the best way to go? Jan In a web browser, try opening http://localhost:631/ This allows you to monitor and set up printers on your system. If you get nothing, make sure cupsys is installed, and then try again. Good luck. Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do I setup printer?
I installed above packages by using atp-get. Did not use 'aptitue' because I got some bad experience few weeks ago. Setup Xorg, install fluxbox, setup cups. After giving the access permission to general users, I can print it. Still I need to figure out how to print ps (PostScript file). I gonna check about Linux printing Howto and ps related stuff. Thanks guys! I can surf Internet on Debian and print text file anyway. It's quite improvement. :-) 2007/5/4, Christopher Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 10:12:22PM -0400, Ninenineone Efx wrote: It's basic thing but I don't remember how to setup printer. In general user, I can't print any paper. I tried 'lpr' command for test, it gives about permission denied error. You seem to be suggesting root can print? How did you set it up? I checked the Debian/GNU Linux System Admin's manual. The printer setup section is blank. :-( Or have you not set it up? If not try installing cupsys and browsing to localhost:631 In addition, how do I install a simple X-Window manager such as fluxbox? I want to install xterm too. aptitude install fluxbox xorg xterm you might also want to install one of xdm, gdm, kdm, or wdm (or any other I'm forgetting) -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do I setup printer?
It's basic thing but I don't remember how to setup printer. In general user, I can't print any paper. I tried 'lpr' command for test, it gives about permission denied error. I checked the Debian/GNU Linux System Admin's manual. The printer setup section is blank. :-( In addition, how do I install a simple X-Window manager such as fluxbox? I want to install xterm too. The easiest way to set up a printer is to install the package printconf, and then run it. It's a similar utility to alsaconf (that sets up soundcards for you). The description for printconf is: printconf - automatically configures USB and parallel printers with CUPS As root, in the terminal, just enter the command printconf. It should work. It depends on what type of printer you have, though (some printers, like Canon, don't work well with Linux, I find). Installing xterm and fluxbox should be the same as installing anything else: # aptitude install fluxbox xterm or, you could use synaptic or apt. Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do I setup printer?
On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 10:12:22PM -0400, Ninenineone Efx wrote: It's basic thing but I don't remember how to setup printer. In general user, I can't print any paper. I tried 'lpr' command for test, it gives about permission denied error. You seem to be suggesting root can print? How did you set it up? I checked the Debian/GNU Linux System Admin's manual. The printer setup section is blank. :-( Or have you not set it up? If not try installing cupsys and browsing to localhost:631 In addition, how do I install a simple X-Window manager such as fluxbox? I want to install xterm too. aptitude install fluxbox xorg xterm you might also want to install one of xdm, gdm, kdm, or wdm (or any other I'm forgetting) -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do I setup printer?
On Friday 04 May 2007 22:12, Ninenineone Efx efx.ninenineone-at-gmail.com |debian_user| wrote: In addition, how do I install a simple X-Window manager such as fluxbox? I want to install xterm too. Try these guides (read them both before proceeding): http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=13362 http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=13828 http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=5382 Good luck. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do I setup printer?
On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 10:12:22PM -0400, Ninenineone Efx wrote: It's basic thing but I don't remember how to setup printer. In general user, I can't print any paper. I tried 'lpr' command for test, it gives about permission denied error. I checked the Debian/GNU Linux System Admin's manual. The printer setup section is blank. :-( What about the printing HOWTO? The lpr command is provided by different print systems (lpd, LPRng, CUPS), and each system handles permissions differently. Since my only printer is a 26 year old dot-matrix, I just just lpd. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
