Printing from Linux to Windows

[Chuck Allison]

Hello Gary,

I've done this over and over to no avail. I either get nothing sent to
the printer, or I get garbage. The only driver available is EPSON
Stylus C80, not C82. I just tried deleting it and reinstalling it
again, choosing Windows printer (SMB), giving it the IP address and
share name, and now nothing is sent to the printer at all. I've been
trying to get this to work for 2 weeks.

If this is the easiest way, I'd hate to see the hardest way :-).

Tuesday, May 13, 2003, 1:56:35 PM, you wrote:

 
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>> I asked a question or two before about printing from RedHat 8.0 to 
>> an Epson Stylus C82 on Windows XP. It's still not working!
>>
>> In the meantime, I did, however, purchase an iMac, and was able to 
>> download from linuxprinting.org some Gimp-print files and was able 
>> to get the iMac printing to the Windows printer in minutes! All I 
>> had to do was:
>>
>> 1) install the Ghostscript and Gimp-print packages 2) specify the 
>> IP address and share name under IP Printing 3) Choose the driver 
>> from the list (it uses CUPS, BTW)
>>
>> I wish it were that easy in Linux!
>>
>> Is there something similar I can do to get things working in RH8? 
>> LPRng is, by default, the printing service that's installed. If I 
>> need to change that to CUPS, I'll need to know how to do that too.
>>
>> I would appreciate any suggestions you may have. Thanks.

GT> The easiest way to set this up is with printtool, the Red Hat printer
GT> configuration tool.  In RH8 it's set up to work with LPRng.  Set up
GT> the queue as a "Windows Printer (SMB)", specify the appropriate
GT> address and share name (you may also need a username and password),
GT> and choose the driver from the list.

GT> Changing to CUPS may have its benefits, but it's definitely not
GT> required.

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Best regards,
 Chuck Allison (The Harmonious CodeSmith)
 Senior Editor, C/C++ Users Journal
 cda at freshsources.com