RE: [newbie] printing to tcp/ip port

2002-01-30 Thread Evert van den Bos
januari 2002 3:25 To: newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] printing to tcp/ip port I have made a similar setup work. Just be aware that while windoze uses the IP address on the printer to find it, CUPS is using a hostname, so you need to put an entry for the printer in /etc/hosts so it can find it. Good

Re: [newbie] printing to tcp/ip port

2002-01-29 Thread Randy Kramer
Brian Parish wrote: I have made a similar setup work. Just be aware that while windoze uses the IP address on the printer to find it, CUPS is using a hostname, so you need to put an entry for the printer in /etc/hosts so it can find it. This is slightly off the point, but I've been

Re: [newbie] printing to tcp/ip port

2002-01-29 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 29 January 2002 15:22, Randy Kramer wrote: Brian Parish wrote: I have made a similar setup work. Just be aware that while windoze uses the IP address on the printer to find it, CUPS is using a hostname, so you need to put an entry for the printer in /etc/hosts so it can find

Re: [newbie] printing to tcp/ip port

2002-01-29 Thread Randy Kramer
Derek Jennings wrote: Randy Kramer wrote: This is slightly off the point, but I've been wondering -- does CUPS run on top of Samba? I.e., must Samba be running for CUPS to work? No... CUPS is independent of Samba. If you have CUPS running in several computers they are all aware of each

Re: [newbie] printing to tcp/ip port

2002-01-28 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 26 January 2002 13:34, Evert van den Bos wrote: Hello everybody, I would like to install my HP 970 cxi printer in Mandrake but I want to assign it to a tcp/ip port. My printer is not attached to the Mandrake box but to a freesco box acting as a printer server. In windows this is

[newbie] printing to tcp/ip port

2002-01-26 Thread Evert van den Bos
Hello everybody, I would like to install my HP 970 cxi printer in Mandrake but I want to assign it to a tcp/ip port. My printer is not attached to the Mandrake box but to a freesco box acting as a printer server. In windows this is fairly simple. I just install the printer as if it was attached