On Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 11:23:41PM +0000, Kent Jantz wrote:
> Ok, I got it to work(sort of). When it prints it trails off the side of the page like this:
>
> I only get three printed
> lines before all of text
> disappears of the side..
>
this is called the staircase effect, maybe the following can help you:
http://ftp.yggdrasil.com/bible/howtos/printing.html#SEC57
i remember also another way, a small change you had to do in the printcap file but i can't find the documents :(
>
> Once I get that fixed is there a way to automate this so I don't have to open up a terminal window and envoke a smbclient command?
i'm not sure, but maybe you can place it (not the command) in the /etc/fstab file
did you find anything in the gentoo forums or on google ?
regards,
stijn
>
> Thanks,
> Kent
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, 25 Aug 2002 17:12:14 +1000
> Evan Read <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >
> > On Sun, 25 Aug 2002 10:52, Kent Jantz wrote:
> > > My dad is sharing a printer off of His computer running Windows XP, how do
> > > I connect to it?
> >
> > # emerge samba
> > # man smbclient
> >
> > or www.google.com (search for "smbprint")
> >
> > Evan.
> >
> >
>
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