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by **Fred Goldstei** » Fri, 17 May 2002 22:02:36

I have just installed Red Hat 7.3, replacing Mandrake 8.2 (whose KDE3
upgrade wasn't quite working right). I reformatted / and /boot while
leaving /home intact,. In many respects 7.3 works very well. It looks
good and works in most respects. But I can't get it to print.

I don't hook the printer to my machine directly; this is my home system, and
there's a Win98 box in the same room, connected via Ethernet. I use smb to
print to the Epson via that machine; in Windows, it's a no-brainer, and
Network Neighborhood "just works". When I installed Mandrake (8.1 and 8.2
both), I was impressed by how well it handled that arrangement. But when I
installed Red Hat 7.3, anaconda never even asked me about printers. It
just installed a zillion packages (custom selected) and finished.

I note that during one attempt to install, anaconda hung trying to read
lprng-3.8.9 (or whatever) off of the install CD (which I had burned from an
iso download). And since anaconda locks the drive (a MAJOR problem), I had
to red-button restart and select all packages again, reformat, etc. And of
course I unselected lprng. I don't know if that's the problem; is it
needed for smb printing? Kpackage sees it on the cd and lists its files,
but doesn't seem to offer the "install" button.

Any clues are much appreciated! Thanks.

by **Dan Stanl** » Tue, 28 May 2002 13:31:06

> I have just installed Red Hat 7.3, replacing Mandrake 8.2 (whose KDE3
> upgrade wasn't quite working right). I reformatted / and /boot while
> leaving /home intact,. In many respects 7.3 works very well. It looks
> good and works in most respects. But I can't get it to print.

> I don't hook the printer to my machine directly; this is my home system, and
> there's a Win98 box in the same room, connected via Ethernet. I use smb to
> print to the Epson via that machine; in Windows, it's a no-brainer, and
> Network Neighborhood "just works". When I installed Mandrake (8.1 and 8.2
> both), I was impressed by how well it handled that arrangement. But when I
> installed Red Hat 7.3, anaconda never even asked me about printers. It
> just installed a zillion packages (custom selected) and finished.

> I note that during one attempt to install, anaconda hung trying to read
> lprng-3.8.9 (or whatever) off of the install CD (which I had burned from an
> iso download). And since anaconda locks the drive (a MAJOR problem), I had
> to red-button restart and select all packages again, reformat, etc. And of
> course I unselected lprng. I don't know if that's the problem; is it
> needed for smb printing? Kpackage sees it on the cd and lists its files,
> but doesn't seem to offer the "install" button.

> Any clues are much appreciated! Thanks.

Hi,
YOu do need a printing deamon. The LPRng is the RedHat default.
Since you didn't install one yet you could go grab some fresh lpr, or
LPRng rpms and install them.
Samba, as an FYI, will only send jobs to the printing deamon. It will
not do the actuall grunt printing work.
Hope this helps.
~Dan

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