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WhiteTornado
05-14-2003, 07:53 PM
Hi,

I have a PII 350Mhz with Mandrake 9.0 connected to a LAN via an SMC Barricade router. The printer is attached to an other PC, a Duron 1100Mhz running with Windows XP. I used PrintDrake to install the NW printer, and it was able to detect it and recognized the C62 Stylus Epson printer. However, I was not able to print a test page, when I open KWord, I am not able to print. A locale printer is shown as the default, yet it should look for a Network printer. One thing I noticed is that when it installed the printer, it made a mention of the samba software installation. I am not set up in a Windows domain but on workgroup with the other PCs.

I would appreciate some help with this fine turing here.

Cheers!
clane
05-14-2003, 08:49 PM
I'm not sure if this will help your specific problem, but I have previously used a similar setup. One of the problems that I found was that even though the name of the printer or the phrase DEFAULT or Postscript/Default appeared in the FILE/PRINT dialog box, the actual name/location that the app was printing to was wrong. For instance, in Netscape/Mozilla if you click FILE/PRINT, then select PROPERTIES for the printer, you may see something like: "lpr {MOZ something something}".

I wiped out that entire line and replaced it with either lpr or xpp. lpr will dump straight to your default printer. xpp will bring up a dialog box that will allow you to select the printer you want to print to. If there is more than one listed under xpp, try them all, see which one works, and then figure out how to delete the rest.
clane
05-14-2003, 08:57 PM
Something else that came to mind.....
Open a terminal and su to root or log out and log back in as root.

Open a browser window and enter: http://localhost.localdomain:631
If you have changed the name of your computer, you will need to enter that instead of localhost.localdomain.

This will bring up the CUPS (Common Unix Printing System) Administration screen. You can try setting up your printer and sending test pages from there.