RE: Network printer . . . sort of

ld . . . you lost me. What's ld? I have the libc5.so stuff. Google rocks! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Patrick May Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 1:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Network printer . . . sort of For WordPerf

RE: Network printer . . . sort of

[EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mark Phelps > Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 8:08 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Network printer . . . sort of > > > You're probably right. I got an rpm of WP8 from a site (only one I could > find) and got

Re: Network printer . . . sort of

that out for a while. - Original Message - From: "Anthony E. Greene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 10:47 PM Subject: Re: Network printer . . . sort of > On 06-Mar-2003/21:29 -0500, Mark Phelps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: Network printer . . . sort of

On 06-Mar-2003/21:29 -0500, Mark Phelps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Now if I can just get WordPerfect to install. I keep getting told that >I need other stuff. Arrgghh. I don't know that there's a version of WP that will run on a current Linux distro. Tony -- Anthony E. Greene

Re: Network printer . . . sort of

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. B

Re: Network printer . . . sort of

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

Re: Network printer . . . sort of

Need to run to a meeting, but will reply promptly afterward. Thanks, 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

Re: Network printer . . . sort of

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 (sam