nchancock Posted February 12, 2005 Report Share Posted February 12, 2005 SUCCESS! After many days of hard work and a couple of chicken sacrifices to the Pantheon of Hardware Gods, I managed to get it to work. Here's my setup: 1 Laptop running Mandrake 10.1, Samba and CUPS 1 Desktop PC running Winblow$ XP 1 Epson CX4600 connected to the Desktop PC 1 D-Link Wireless Router for networking So, I got the Samba set up so that the Windows box saw the Laptop and vice-versa. I could transfer files, send messages, and all of that. I could not, however, print to my nice new printer. I researched around and found how to set up CUPS to print to a samba printer. That went OK, but CUPS didn't have a driver for the EPSON CX 4600. Bummer. Googling, I found that the EPSON CX3200 driver was supposed to work just fine, so I set CUPS to use that one. Every time I sent a test page from the laptop, though, it came out as a full page of solid balck. Not friendly to my pocketbook if you know what I mean. I tried setting CUPS to print with the RAW driver, but then all I got was a page full of postscript mumbo-jumbo, so that wasn't the way to go. Then I stumbled upon the solution. I figured that if the Linux CX3200 drivers worked for the CX4600, then the Windows CX3200 driver might be the way to go. I set up a new printer in XP using the CX3200 drivers and then set CUPS to print to the new printer share. Prints like a dream now. It's probably not impressive to all you Linux gurus, but for a noob like myself, it was a pretty big victory. :) Well, that's my story, I hope it can help someone else having a similar problem out. [moved from Hardware by spinynorman] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkelve Posted February 12, 2005 Report Share Posted February 12, 2005 Thanks for your reply! B) My impression is that sometimes, the most valuable help for newbies comes from other newbies. After many days of hard work and a couple of chicken sacrifices to the Pantheon of Hardware Gods, I managed to get it to work. Hmm... seems like I'll have to update my article "Troubleshooting your (Linux) Hardware" now :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nchancock Posted February 12, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2005 Thanks, its good to know that I'm giving something back to the site. I have gotten SO much help from here, and not just from posting questions. I would probably have gone back to the Darkside on several occasions if not for you guys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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