Tackling a shared USB printer (linux -> WXP)

d l popgojp at yahoo.co.jp
Tue May 4 17:22:55 UTC 2004


Interesting. I have the raw octet stream enabled in
mime.*, both windows and localmachine print perfectly.

--- Brion Swanson <brions at poetryproject.net> からのメッ
セージ:
> Well as I stated earlier, when I set the printer
> driver to Raw Queue then I
> cannot print anything from linux locally (though
> networked Windows
> connections appear to work).
> 
> The solution seems to be to create two queues - one
> for local printing with
> the correct Canon driver and one for networked
> Windows (and other shared)
> printing with the Raw Queue.  This seems to have the
> right behavior, but it
> seems wrong that I should need to set up multiple
> queues to the same printer
> with different driver sets to get linux and Windows
> machines to print to it.
> 
> Thanks for all your help guys!
> Brion
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Tim Waugh" <twaugh at redhat.com>
> To: "For users of Fedora Core releases"
> <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 6:03 AM
> Subject: Re: Tackling a shared USB printer (linux ->
> WXP)
> 
> 
> On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 05:55:40PM -0400, Brion
> Swanson wrote:
> 
> > After changing the mime.types and mime.convs to
> include
> > application/octet-stream the Windows machines can
> print (well, at least
> one
> > can -- I haven't tried the other, but for all
> intents and purposes,
> they're
> > the same).
> 
> This isn't really the right way to do it if you're
> using
> redhat-config-printer -- instead, set a queue to be
> raw ('Generic' ->
> 'Raw Print Queue' as the model).
> 
> Tim.
> */
> 
> 
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