Yeap. It's actually quite easy.
Too often people coming at Mandrake from other distributions suggest
solutions applicable to their old distros missing the ease already present
in the Mandrake Distro... I.E. "You need to compile the kernel first... " or
"edit the /etc/rc.local file to enable routing". Duh it's a SWITCH in
Linuxconf...
The former is one of my favorites, since almost all of the options are
already turned on in Mandrake. 90% of people told to do this, don't have to!
This is a point where Mandrake could ease things for the novice by tying
together the seemingly disjointed instructions on different packages.
A section on "printing from Windows to Linux" would quash quite a number of
questions alone... the docs are already written, they are just not presented
to the novice in a manner that they would hit upon easily.
Heck the manual should even suggest the benefits of using Linux as a printer
server...
-JMS
-----Original Message-----
From: Stout, Wayne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, May 26, 2000 11:20 AM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [expert] Printer on network...
As long as you have Samba configured correctly, there's really nothing to
it. All I've ever had to do to reach the printer hanging off of my wife's
Win98 pc is run printtool after making sure Samba is configured correctly.
Same thing with my office pc. Configure Samba, run printtool. You might want
to put the IP addy for the W2000 box in your /etc/hosts file to make things
easier.
The Printing HOW-TO makes reference to a Mini HOW-TO dealing with this
subject, but I couldn't find it. It also says the printer in question is
perfectly supported.
HTH
Wayne.
-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Vogel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, May 26, 2000 8:04 AM
Hey everyone. I've got a small network set up at home... Mandrake Linux
7.02 networked to my Windows 2000 machine via a hub. I've got a printer
(Panasonic KX-P1124) attached to the back of the Windows machine.
I'm looking for step-by-step process to get the printer to work with Linux,
but I'm coming up blank.
Can someone help?
