Re: How do I setup printer?

On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 09:36:48AM -0400, Jan Sneep wrote:
[please snip unnecessary bits!]
I have it working, which is great, but now I'm wondering, what steps did I
do that I didn't NEED to do to get this working, because I removed some
entries from the smb.conf to get it exactly what was shown in the document,
will I be missing some functionality that is put in by default that I might
need down the road when I try and install some other software package and
thus spend hours running around in circles trying to find some document some
place that mentions that I need one of those lines that are now gone.

Ahhh!!, first BEFORE you edit any config files make a copy first!

Mine was a pure clean Etch install (only a couple of days old) and yet
needed to cobble together a solution from two separate documents, both of
which purported to HAVE the answer. Perhaps there should be an "official"
... Doing Basic Stuff in Debian ... icon on the default desktop that gets
installed with Debian ... yes, there can be lots of discussion about what
constitutes "basic stuff", but adding a printer and sharing it across a LAN.
IMHO, should have been as simple as checking a box labelled "Share this
Printer ?" "Share with Windows computers Yes/No? "Do you want a password
Yes/No?, etc and then have ALL the necessary changes made to the various
config files. Once you know what to do it isn't difficult, but of course it
is knowing what to do that is always the challenge isn't it?

Sounds good. Now who is going to implement this?

It is kinda like wandering around in Zelda trying to figure out what
combination of hidden buttons to hit to un-lock the next room in the
adventure ... only with Zelda the graphics are better ... :O)

The graphics were better in Zork, well at least in my head. :-)

--
Chris.
======


--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Quantcast