Cross-platform printing
I'm trying to print to a shared Windows XP printer from a SuSE 9.1 machine. I've installed and configured Samba, so the machines are able to see and recognize each other on the network. I can even accessed a Windows 2000 file share on a third computer from SuSE. However, I'm unaware of how to install the printer on SuSE over the network. For starters, I can't find any Unix drivers for the printer I want to use (Epson Stylus CX6400), and second, I can't get SuSE to see printers over the network. All I get is a 'print$' folder but that doesn't have anything to do with the actual printers. Am I at a loss because there are no drivers? Can't I just raw spool it to XP? I've never had to do this before so I'm unsure of how it would be done.
I'm afraid the best advice I can give you is: Printing in Linux is (still) a bitch, let alone cross-platform printing in Linux. Expect delays. [caution]
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Instructions on using a variety of printer drivers for your printer. First think in google for cx6400 linux.
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