I want to thank everyone at Thursday night's meeting for the warm
welcome. What a treat it was to be sitting in a group and being able to
use words like "distro", "Gnome", and "YaST" without drawing strange
looks. The pizza was good, too. :-)
I learned alot, but not as much as I thought I had. When I tried to get
my printer functional I must have forgotten or misunderstood the advice
that was shared with me. (I will be bringing a notebook with me next
meeting.)
I've got openSuSE 10.2 and access the net through a wireless router.
There are 4 boxes on the LAN and the other 3 are WinXP systems. The
printer we use is connected to one of those machines. I can ping the
printer host box from my Linux system. Printer sharing is turned on at
the host, and the XP machines print fine through the LAN.
The CUPS job monitor acts as if the print jobs are being sent, right
down to the progress bar and the printer icon going from green to yellow
and back to green, with no error messages. But of course, there is no
page forthcoming from the printer or this email would have been much
shorter.
It sounded so simple at the meeting...
