On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 02:27:02PM -0500, Thomas H. George,,, wrote: | Main computer is Debian Woody, 2.4.18 kernel connected through a Linksys | Wireless Point Router to a DSL modem. Printer is HP Deskjet 940c | installed with CUPS. KDE System print manager says its URI is | ipp://Phoenix:631/printers/lp. (Phoenix has nothing to do with software | of that name; I named the computer Phoenix because I have rebuilt it so | many times.) | | Laptop (my grandson's, not mine, with his homework paper) is an IBM | Thinkpad, Windows XP with an Actiontec Wireless USB Adapter. Windows XP | Add Printer cannot find the Phoenix printer though it has no trouble | connecting to the internet through the Router. | | If I reboot the main computer to Windows 98 (which I hate to do) the | laptop can find the printer. How can I persuade it to find the Debian | system? AFAIK WinXP doesn't like old-school MS 'share-level shares'. Win98 hardly knows anything other than that, so it doesn't have a problem. You might need to set up samba (on the debian machine) more like an NT/2k domain controller for XP to interact with it via SMB. However, I've heard rumors that Win2k and WinXP support IPP. If so, you can ditch legacy MS vices and use an open standard instead. From what I've heard, when/where windows asks for the path/url to the printer, specify http://Phoenix:631/printers/lp. Then it should use TCP/IP for transport and network (in place of SMB) and HTTP/IPP for the actual printer access. If this works, please post any relevant details others should know to set that up. HTH, -D -- (A)bort, (R)etry, (T)ake down entire network? http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/
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