[Novalug] Network printing

[dwdurham at verizon.net]

James,

Thanks for the offer. I was hoping someone would take pity on me. ;-)

I had a Linux Guru from the office install Kubuntu 2.6.15 (KDE 3.5.2) on a HP Pavilion ZE4400 laptop and an IBM NetVista 8311 tower. I also have an old PIII that he set up to be a tape backup machine with a Adaptec 2940 SCSI card and a tape drive out of an old Compaq server. I can hardly get into it because there is no GUI on it. My Guru lost patience with me when I did not return his enthusiasm for command line processing. My retiring did not help either. I am now on my own.

The printer is a Brother HL-5170DN with its own connection to my hardwired ethernet network. The Windows boxes see it just fine. 

My goal is to learn enough Linux to transition away from Microsoft before I am forced to Vista. My wife is a writer working from home and requires printing above all else. I am her indentured LAN administrator and help desk. I have eased her into Firefox, and think she can handle Open Office but without printing, it is a no-go.

Dennis

>From: Jay Hart <jhart at kevla.org>
>Date: 2008/01/02 Wed AM 08:05:00 CST
>To: dwdurham at verizon.net
>Cc: James  Darlack <jmdarlack at yahoo.com>, novalug <novalug at calypso.tux.org>
>Subject: Re: [Novalug] Other newbie topics.  Newbies and vets, please respond with your i

>What distro are you using, Gnome or KDE, tell us a little more of what you are
>running, then we can chime in and tell you how to configure your printer.
>
>Jay
>
>> I am having trouble figuring out how to configure printers in Linux. I have a
>> network ready Brother laser printer and there are Linux drivers at the Brother
>> website for it but I cannot make sense of the options and parameters and I
>> have failed to get it working. I keep having to go back to Windows to get
>> something printed.
>>
>> Dennis
>>
>>>From: "James (Jim) Darlack" <jmdarlack at yahoo.com>
>>>Date: 2008/01/01 Tue PM 09:14:05 CST
>>>To: novalug <novalug at calypso.tux.org>
>>>Subject: [Novalug] Other newbie topics.  Newbies and vets,	please respond
>>> with your ideas.
>>
>>>Geez... give us some room at Oracle to carry in a box, display, keyboard, and
>>> mouse, and do the step by step install.  I bet there is a lot of newbies that
>>> will be interested.. or not so newbies.     Heh, id spend $300 for a laptop
>>> for a portable easy to carry laptop from Microcenter to do take to the
>>> NOVALUG class to do the install.       What other classes would us newbies
>>> amd seasoned vets like?     Setting up email.  Serving web pages.  Setting up
>>> RAID, mysql, Oracle, php, apache, RUBY, etc.  Geez... tons of ideas.
>>> Security system with cameras and sensors?     Hey newbies and seasoned vets,
>>> chime in and mention what you are interested in!!!!     Jim
>>>   Nino Pereira <pereira at speakeasy.net> wrote: I'd be very interested. I had
>>> a problem after installing Ubuntu server.<BR>I needed help, of the type
>>> that Greg mentioned. And, my intent with this <BR>install was to use the
>>> box as a server. I still haven't figured
>>>out how where to put 'virtual host' directives from what the way it
>>>was done in Apache 1.3 to what's done now in Apache 2.0. It's
>>>probably simple, but I don't see it.
>>>
>>>Nino
>>>
>>>Chris Rogers wrote:
>>>> I have lots of presentations on basic unix. Used to do a lot of
>>>> training. Plenty of materials to draw from, and servers is what I do.
>>>> Happy to get together sometime, and scope out a presentation for a
>>>> future meeting.
>>>>
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