Linux in Italian schools - five months later [LWN.net]

Linux in Italian schools - five months later

Posted Feb 2, 2006 17:32 UTC (Thu) by musicon (subscriber, #4739)
In reply to: Linux in Italian schools - five months later by vblum
Parent article: Linux in Italian schools - five months later

Now, let me preface this by saying I'm not a Linux expert by any means. I've played around off an on since '94, and am comfortable with man and editing /etc as needed. But my day-to-day work and home systems are XP.

On my Ubuntu system (either Breezy or Dapper), I have _yet_ been able to print to an SMB printer. And (at work), since all queues are hosted on W2K servers, and no one has local printers, it means I print from my XP system.

I've had other strange SMB authentication issues as well, such as one time being able to access SMB shares, and the next receiving the very helpful GNOME message "The folder contents could not be displayed."

This is apparently a quirk in Ubuntu - I can reliably mount SMB shares using the exact same commands on other systems, but Ubuntu displays (again very helpful) "SMB connection failed".

man is no help. Googling is no help. It's just broken, and I work around it, hoping that each new update will fix it.

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Linux printing

Posted Feb 7, 2006 19:19 UTC (Tue) by roelofs (subscriber, #2599) [Link]

Do none of these printers have network ports? Generally speaking, all you need is an IP address and you're set (insofar as most work printers have PostScript engines in them and speak "lpd"). That W2K server is just a nicety for the Windows folks.

Greg

Linux printing

Posted Feb 9, 2006 8:49 UTC (Thu) by Wol (guest, #4433) [Link]

If it's like mine, it has a USB port ... mind you, I might be blaming ZA for my inability to print from my laptop...

Cheers,
Wol