On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:58:28 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
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>> I have a suggestion....Attach the printer to just one
machine, and
>> then set it up to share and then connect each machine to it via the
>> network. That might help a whole lot and cut down on the messages. I
>> hardly ever see those things if at all.
>
> <sigh> "Set it up to share"?? Has that gotten any easier in
> recent years -- since the last time I gave up trying??
>
Yes, it has. With a Linux machine host, you just set it up in CUPS. On
the rest of the Linux machines, you can have CUPS search the network and
it will find the printer. For XP, you will want to install an IPP
interface printer. If you really want to, and you have Samba running on
the host machine, you can share that way too, but it is more work.
Man, it must have! The last time (about FC3 iirc), a friendly
soul spent days trying to walk me through it, and finally had to quit
before we ever got it to work. After that, I also tried buying a hardware
printserver -- and never managed to get that to work, either...
Poking around, I can't tell# CUPS whether what I got into was
CUPS or not. $ cups, $ CUPS, # cups, and # CUPS all get "command not
found." (rpm -q does tell me I have cups-1.3.9-1.fc9.i386)
So I started looking in the Main Menu. The likeliest launcher,
afaict, points to /usr/bin/system-config-printer; is that it? I hit the
usual glass wall with that -- asking me things in jargon, as if being
English words made their technical sense plain.
I remember there was a way to make at least some browsers handle
the configuration -- but not how to launch it; maybe that has gotten
easier, too.
Do you have a favorite tutorial on the web somewhere? I know
there are some -- which looked a bit daunting last time I saw them...
--
Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.