The very day that my new machine loaded with Mandrake 7.2 arrived, 8.0 was released. Anyway, deciding that I'd had enough of being at the bleeding edge I decided I'd try to stay with 7.2 for a while. After getting Samba configured and running, I discovered that I'm getting the apparently well-known "%%[ LastPage ]%%" problem when printing from Windows to a printer on the Linux box. Browsing through several archives, there seem to be two ways to deal with this: 1. Install a newer version of cups (or perhaps just the cups-drivers; it isn't clear whether cups itself needs to be updated from the current version. (The machine came loaded with cups 1.1.4 and cups-drivers 0.3.6.) 2. Remove cups entirely and replace it with LPRng. Does anyone have any advice as to which of these is likely to be least fraught with difficulty? Naively, the former looks good because Mandrake seems to use cups exclusively already. On the other hand, it seems faintly ridiculous to have my Windows machine generate and send PostScript, only to have the Linux box reformat it into the native format for the printer. LPRng apparently allows one to simply send the already-formatted output from the native Windows printer driver straight through to the printer, which seems a rather more elegant way to proceed. Doc Evans -------------------------------------------------------------- Phone: +1 303 494 0394 Mobile: +1 720 839 8462 Fax: +1 781 240 0527 --------------------------------------------------------------
