[SLUG] Disc and print sharing with XP

Gavin Baker gav at supercowpowers.org
Thu Dec 2 14:21:55 GMT 2004


On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 03:18 -0500, john at johnallsopp.co.uk wrote:

> Step 5 from here <http://www.linuxprinting.org/cups-doc.html> works,
> but the second field in the wizard says 'location' and I've not a clue
> what to enter. That means, backup, read and learn about CUPS right
> from the start.

One of mine...

Description: Crap Brother laser
Location: Hiding under the table

They are just comments so you can distinguish between multiple printers
of the same type on your network.

> The more I know, the more I think Linux ain't for normal people.

I understand your frustration with redhat 9. Why not try a more
new-linux-user friendly distro, like SUSE, Mandrake, Lycoris,
fedora, ... ?

I never liked redhat either :)

Regards,
Gav





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