[SLUG] Need some help setting up printer

[Alister Waller]

Hi.   I have been trying to get an epson stylus colour 900 printer set up on my RedHat 6.2 linux PC so that my win98 PC's can print to it. I can print fine in Linux using lpr -Plp filename. I am using SAMBA 2.0.6. I can see the printer over the network fine. I also have linux file shares set up which work fine. I just don't seem to be able to get the printing bit to work.   my settings in smb.conf are as follows:   [epson] comment = epson printer path = /var/spool/lpd/lp read only = No guest ok = Yes print ok = Yes print command = lpr -r -h -P %p %s printer name = lp   I don't have an Epson stylus colour 900 listed in the printtool option in Linux so I am just choosing the Epson Stylus Color (UP) printer.   The windows side of things seems to install OK. I use the correct windows driver for the printer, but when I try to print a test page I get   there was an error writing to \\servername\epson for printer type   (note: I have tried using lp as well) there was a problem printing to the printer due to an unknown system error restart windows and try printing again etc etc etc     Obviously I have tried that.. I have tried printing direct to the spool etc   anyone have any ideas??? It would make my friday to have this sorted so I can enjoy a few beers tonight.   regards   Alister