Installing a 'windows' only printer - serverForum: Printers Topic: Installing a 'windows' only printer - server started by: TravMan1963 Posted by TravMan1963 on Mar. 11 2008,22:12
Greetings.I am attempting to use the info located at < http://brendan.sdf-eu.org/articles/install_winprinter.php > to install a 820Cse Printer (Parallel) (which does work with cups under ubuntu - local (and remote on an XP box)) I wish to install this on an older pc (200 mhz, 160MB) - so I'm using DSL. A few questions. Can I expect (if I use ''standard' fonts" (arial/times new roman)) that the output will be 'as seen on screen (from various Linux's, OS X, and win xp). Images will print ok? (side note - OS X won't print to the printer on XP - driver issue I suspect) I added cups from dsl extensions - no problem I ran into a problem with installing pnm2ppa - untarred it fine - but there is no 'make' command.... (I would guess I could add 'make' with apt-get - but I'm not finding that either) --- Or is it such that running a print server - is beyond DSL (that is my main focus - to allow the multiple computers to access the shared printer.) I do have a local printer (another 820Cse) on my XP box and can print to it from Ubuntu. - Also, if there is a section I should read up in the DSL book, pls let me know. Input appreciated. Thanks TM <side note - used DSL this week to recover data from another dead XP box...again> Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Mar. 12 2008,00:30
fyi: you probably did not find 'make' in the apt repository because you probably forgot to 'update' first. Posted by Juanito on Mar. 12 2008,17:59
dsl will work fine as a printer server for linux and windows machines, you can use the cups and the samba mydsl extensions for this. |