Setting up printer network in FC 5?

fvsfvs
edited April 2006 in Science & Tech
I'm looking to take my Epson stylus 880 printer that's now on my G4 Mac and network it onto my new build Tforce 6100, AMD 64 pc that's running FC5, I'm on netgear rooter that has my Mac OSX, PC XP and this machine on broard ban. I'm not sure how to go about it? I do have samba installed but don't know where to start, need direction. Would apprciate help.
fvs

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  • drasnordrasnor Starship Operator Hawthorne, CA Icrontian
    edited April 2006
    Get your printer shared on Samba with your Macintosh. Your Windows machine shouldn't have much trouble connecting to it but the Linux machine will be a little more difficult to configure.

    I'm going to recommend going with CUPS for your spooler and LinuxPrinting.org's suggestion of gimp-print for your driver. CUPS is really easy to configure but make sure you're installing a version with Samba support (ie, check that samba is a dependency in your package manager). Before you start installing stuff though check and see if CUPS is already installed and running by opening up a web browser and going to http://localhost:631. This opens the CUPS Web Administration interface. Make sure gimp-print is installed before proceeding to the next few steps.

    Most of the stuff in here is self explanatory. You want to create a new printer under administrative tasks. You can name it anything you like, but when you get to the device you'll need to select Windows Printer via Samba or something similar. It'll then ask you for the full network path to the printer which looks something like smb://username:password@server/printername. When it asks you to choose a driver for the printer, go through the manufacturer->printer->model menu tree and pick the one for your printer that has the "CUPS+GIMP-print" suffix and the correct language (en for english). After that, print a test page and see if it works.

    -drasnor :fold:
  • fvsfvs
    edited April 2006
    Hi drasnor, Once again I take one step forward and two steps back, This time all was going well with my internet and I thought that I would start going ahead and download the programs that would help personalize my system, I used update to update my system the n commenced to install samba, anjuta and a few other things, I guess in the update it included a new kernel 2.6.16 and when I rebooted once again and found Once more I hadn't a connection to the web and no server. Went through all the connands & code we did in the last two weeks the last one, etc/init.d/network restart and found error message that said something about errors and refered me to /etc/syscongig/network-scripts/ifup-eth, I don't know what I should look for? This FC5 is rather differcult to handle for a novice.
    I'm glad to have your help, Thanks fvs
  • skrykingskryking
    edited April 2006
    what error message did you get?

    Skryking
  • fvsfvs
    edited April 2006
    [root@localhost soranno]# /etc/init.d/network restart
    Shutting down loopback interface: [ OK ]
    Bringing up loopback interface: [ OK ]
    Bringing up interface eth0:
    Determining IP information for eth0.../etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-eth: line 260: 3844 Terminated /sbin/dhclient ${DHCLIENTARGS} ${DEVICE}
    failed.
    [FAILED]
    [root@localhost soranno
  • skrykingskryking
    edited April 2006
    I'm updating mine right now to see if I can break it the same way.

    Skryking
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