Hi Greg, I'm one of those newbie Linux users who also uses Windows as a computer networking student, so maybe I can help. Please feel free to write to me off list and I'll see if I can help you.<smile> If/when you do write to me off list, I was wondering if you could tell me what steps you took to install your printer, e.g. did you use the add printer wizard or were you using the add new hardware wizard? Second, if you tell XP that you are installing a network printer, does it show any printers available via the add printer wizard? And last, what kind of printer are you using? If you like, please email me at bhatch200 at comcast.net. Best Regards, Beth -----Original Message----- From: speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Gregory Nowak Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2005 8:09 PM To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca Subject: Ot, getting win xp working with a samba printer -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all. First, sorry for the somewhat off-topic post. The subject line may not be entirely accurate, but it describes the basics of what I need to do. I have a printer connected to a gnu/linux box, which I can print to from gnu/linux just fine, and which is also configured in samba, allowing me to print to it from other machines. I know my samba setup is correct as well, since I was able to print to this printer just fine from windows 98 for a couple of years now. However, I cannot print to this printer from a windows xp system. Specifically, whereas I was able to select the printer driver under win98 from the manufacturers and models dialog box, I no longer have access to this box when installing the printer from winxp. Also, since I have a disk for this driver, when I browse to the location containing the inf file and the driver, and activate the ok button, windows says: "Windows cannot locate a suitable printer driver. Contact your administrator for help locating and installing a suitable driver." If anybody might have a solution to this problem, or would like more details, you might want to write to me privately if you consider this to be a thread not meant for this list. Thanks in advance. Greg - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCtiVQ7s9z/XlyUyARAicMAJ0QvRJgKKtDYIx5SrX0U/tS5p16FgCglRGL +bFbj9/lN+XKf4wRL9UJfWo= =Wa63 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
