Hello, I'm very familiar with windows having begun back in the days of Deskview/386 and Windows version 1. My Linux experience however is very limited.
I have an HP DeskJet D4168 printer connected to a Windows 2000 computer via the USB bus. The printer is shared and my other networked PCs print to the printer fine. This printer only prints, it does not fax, scan or copy. The PC which has the printer also has coLinux running. I can connect to coLinux using telnetssl and CygWinX without problem. I would like the coLinux installation to be able to print to the Windows 2000 shared printer. The documentation I have read leads me to believe I need HPLIP. I downloaded and installed it with many issues. The HPLIP documentation (http://hplip.sourceforge.net/install/manual/distros/debian.html) says I need the following packages: gcc-c++ python-dev libsnmp5-dev libcupsys2-dev python-qt3 lsb libusb-dev libjpeg62-dev cupsys cupsys-client cupsys-bsd. Dselect indicates gcc-c++ and libsnmp5-dev do not exist so I download the closest thing, gcc and libsnmp6-dev. An automatic install of HPLIP craps out telling me I need to install libjpeg. After installing this, HPLIP tells me it still needs to be installed. A manual install proceeds much further to the point of presenting me with a GUI for locating the printer. At this point HPLIP is blind to my shared printer when I enter the IP address into the "Find Manually" address box. There has to be a simpler way! For completeness I include the output from hpcheck below. If anyone can help - thanks. HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 1.7.4a) Dependency/Version Check Utility ver. 5.3 Copyright (c) 2001-7 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details. --------------- | SYSTEM INFO | --------------- Basic system information: Linux colinux 2.6.11-co-0.6.4 #1 Mon Jun 19 05:36:13 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux Detected distro (/etc/issue): debian 4.0r0 Detected distro (lsb_release): Debian 4.0r0 (etch) Currently installed HPLIP version... HPLIP 1.7.4a currently installed in '/usr/share/hplip'. Current contents of '/etc/hp/hplip.conf' file: # hplip.conf [hpiod] # port=0 (dynamic IP port) port=2208 [hpssd] # port=0 (dynamic IP port) port=2207 [hplip] version=1.7.4a jdprobe=0 [dirs] home=/usr/share/hplip run=/var/run ppd=/usr/share/ppd/HP ppdbase=/usr/share/ppd doc=/usr/share/doc/hplip-1.7.4a # Following values are determined at configure time and cannot be changed. [configure] network-build=1 pp-build=0 gui-build=1 scanner-build=0 fax-build=0 cups11-build=0 installinitd=/usr/lib/lsb/install_initd chkconfig= internal-tag=1.7.4.13 HPLIP running? Yes, HPLIP is running (OK). HPOJ running? No, HPOJ is not running (OK). Checking Python version... OK, version 2.4.4 installed Checking PyQt version... OK, version 3.16 installed. Checking SIP version... OK, Version 4.4.5 installed ---------------- | DEPENDENCIES | ---------------- Checking for dependency libcrypto - OpenSSL cryptographic library... OK, found. Checking for dependency gcc - GNU Project C and C++ Compiler... OK, found. Checking for dependency SANE - Scanning library... Checking for dependency GhostScript - PostScript and PDF language interpreter and previewer... OK, found. Checking for dependency libjpeg - JPEG library... OK, found. Checking for dependency libpthread - POSIX threads library... OK, found. Checking for dependency make - GNU make utility to maintain groups of programs... OK, found. Checking for dependency python-devel - Python development files... OK, found. Checking for dependency Reportlab - PDF library for Python... This is an OPTIONAL dependency. Some HPLIP functionality may not function properly. Checking for dependency PyQt - Qt interface for Python... OK, found. Checking for dependency cups-devel- Common Unix Printing System development files... OK, found. Checking for dependency ppdev - Parallel port support kernel module.... This is an OPTIONAL dependency. Some HPLIP functionality may not function properly. Checking for dependency libusb - USB library... OK, found. Checking for dependency scanimage - Shell scanning program... This is an OPTIONAL dependency. Some HPLIP functionality may not function properly. Checking for dependency libnetsnmp-devel - SNMP networking library development files... OK, found. Checking for dependency Python 2.2 or greater - Python programming language... OK, found. Checking for dependency LSB - Linux Standard Base support... OK, found. Checking for dependency xsane - Graphical scanner frontend for SANE... This is an OPTIONAL dependency. Some HPLIP functionality may not function properly. Checking for dependency cups - Common Unix Printing System... OK, found. Checking for dependency Python 2.3 or greater - Required for fax functionality... OK, found. ---------------------- | INSTALLED PRINTERS | ---------------------- ---------------------- | SANE CONFIGURATION | ---------------------- 'hpaio' in '/etc/sane.d/dll.conf'... --------------------- | PYTHON EXTENSIONS | --------------------- Checking 'cupsext' CUPS extension... OK, found. Checking 'pcardext' Photocard extension... OK, found. 6 errors were detected. Please refer to the installation instructions at: http://hplip.sourceforge.net/install/index.html -- Larry Crouch [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. 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