Jaunty: How to install a USB printer?

[Ric Moore]

On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 14:37 +0300, Willy Hamra wrote:
> 2009/5/9 Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com>:
> > On Fri, 2009-05-08 at 08:15 +0000, marc wrote:
> >> Ric Moore said:
> >
> >> > But this may shed some light... When I worked at RedHat, I could never
> >> > get my Ex's printer to work. Darn embarrassing to be on the Help Desk
> >> > fixing everyone elses printers. We had one whizbang that fired up emacs,
> >> > had ten terminals with code pouring down the screens like the matrix.
> >> > Impressed me! Then he started narrowing down the problem to samba not
> >> > being configured correctly. I'm going she doesn't NEED Samba and I
> >> > ripped it out. The printer worked right off. Samba was trying to network
> >> > a printer that hadn't been configured correctly for the system. The cart
> >> > before the horse, so to speak. You can rip out Samba, after saving
> >> > config files if you need it or rip it out for good if you don't need it.
> >> > One less thing in the way.
> >>
> >> I'll give that a spin. Thanks.
> >
> > Let us know how it works. I later re-installed Samba on her machine and
> > it picked up on the local printer it found and configured it for use
> > easily. I guess it needs to be configured locally before the install of
> > samba. It would be interesting if this was indeed the case. Good Luck!
> > Ric
> >
> 
> my samsung ML-1610 works out of the box in jaunty, it got recognized
> right away and auto-configured while installing jaunty alpha-3 or 4,
> cant remember from an alternate CD. and in all previous versions,
> using http://localhost:631 always opens up a CUSP page, and the
> printer can always be found by the detect new printer functionality,
> which configures the printer way easier than add a new printer. and
> yes, my printer is USB as well.
> can you make sure the printer is detected by the system? i'm no lspci
> or lsusb or whatever expert, but kinfocenter/USB should point you in
> the right direction if the printer is seen or not.

Samba will steal it and put permissions to it. I know that one from hard
experience as I noted. I'd really like to know how this turns out. :)
Ric
 
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