Hi all, I have a small network set up, on which I have 3 Linux-Mandrake Boxes and one Windows98 Machine. On each of the Linux boxes I have installed Samba 2.0.7, and everything so far has been a breeze and is working fine...... with one exception..... On the win98 machine, I have an Epson Stylus printer which I am trying to print to from the Linux boxes...... can I get it to work...... no!!!!! I've read (and re-read) the docs, the man pages, the examples, the smbprint file. Whatever I try, it just refuses to work, I going round & round in ever decreasing circles and it's driving me crazy!!!!! Could someone please help me with this..... walk me through it. On a similar topic, when I run the 'printtool' command, printtool tells me that samba is not installed (when obviously it is), can anyone shed any light on this????? Thanks in Advance Artie
[Artie Ball <artie.ball@aacc.com.sa>]> On the win98 machine, I have an Epson Stylus printer which I am > trying to print to from the Linux boxes...... can I get it to > work...... no!!!!!Question. Are you feeding the Epson the right file format? I have no idea what type of printer this is, or what types of input it accepts, so you'll have to figure that out. Does it take PostScript? Does it take plain text? Does it take PCL or some similar language? ...Or is it one of those "Made for Windows" printers? (The ones that tend to freak out if you actually try to use your computer for anything useful while print jobs are spooled?) If the latter, you're not likely to have much luck. Even though the printer is connected to a Windows box, the input to the printer is generated directly on your Unix box -- no translation is done by the Windows-side print driver. How to verify that you are generating the right output format: generate a print file from your Unix host (be it PCL, PS, text, whatever), and copy it to your Windows host. Open up a DOS box and say something like copy my.file.to.print \\my_computer\my_printer That basically goes through the same procedure as the Unix host should do if you have smbclient printing set up, only there shouldn't be anything wrong network-wise since it's using loopback. I have no experience with Mandrake Linux; it follows that I have no clue what this "printtool" is. Hope I was of some help anyway. Peter