Printer sharing issues

[Chris Morris]

I'm using Mint 13 MATE 64bit and I have a Canon iP4500 connected by usb and shared.
I'm connected via wireless to our Modem/router.
The wife's PC is WinXP64 and connected via eth cable. While the XP PC can see my shared printer, it cannot connect to it.
 "Windows cannot connect to the printer. The specified printer may have lost its connection to the sever..blah blah etc"
Samba file sharing is working fine though, I have shared directories that she has mounted as network-drives and that all works perfectly.
The XP machine does have the correct drivers (they are listed in its driver search) as the printer has been connected directly to that PC before.

So the printer is enabled and shared and published. XP can see it, but cannot connect to it. Almost seems to be some sort of permissions issue?

Anyone using Mint and sharing a printer to windows?

cheers
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Chris

[Chris Morris]

Linux community to the rescue!
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=51&t=111100&p=622432#p622432

In case anyone else has this issue in future.

chris

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[Perry Spiller]

Are live CD versions still around? I found an old
copy of Ubuntu Live CD, but I'm guessing that
the h/ware was a bit too modern for it, when it
was tried on a neighbour's machine.

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[Rose McGillicuddy]

Pretty sure Pclinuxos still do live CDs and it's a very easy Linux for win users to migrate to.  Vectorlinux used to do live CDs also, but not as easy for Win users.

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[Rose McGillicuddy]

Here's the Pclinuxos download link.  All Pclos downloads I've tried have been live CDs but haven't tried anything new for a year or more.  Happily run the KDE desktop on my laptop.

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[Rose McGillicuddy]

oops - the link http://www.pclinuxos.com/?page_id=10

[Rose McGillicuddy]

and vectorlinux still have a live version too - although I haven't tried it recently (as in several years).  It's based on Slackware so I didn't fidn it as easy to use, although if it had had easier dial up set up several years ago, it probably would have become my distro of chosice, as it is so fast on older hardware.  I went away from Vectorlinux because of the dialup issues, and ended with Pclinuxos which I have never regretted, although it can be a bit bloated.  There's a reduced version called Minime though.

[chris morris]

On 06/11/12 22:46, Perry Spiller wrote:

Are live CD versions still around? I found an old
copy of Ubuntu Live CD, but I'm guessing that
the h/ware was a bit too modern for it, when it
was tried on a neighbour's machine.

Most distro's are Live DVD or bootable USB image these days. Some of the light-weight ones still do CD's.

chris

[jon zendatta]

http://www.copyleft.co.nz/ have CD or DVD

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Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2012 04:07:15 +1300
From: racepi...@gmail.com
To: hbl...@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Live CD

[Perry Spiller]

Are live CD versions still around? I found an old
copy of Ubuntu Live CD, but I'm guessing that
the h/ware was a bit too modern for it, when it

was tried (and failed) on a neighbour's machine.

----------------Then Chris commented--------------------

Most distros are Live DVD or bootable USB image

these days. Some of the light-weight ones still do CD's.

I'll check to see if their drive is dual DVD/CD.

What do you suggest I do to obtain a bootable
USB option? What size is involved?

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Been noticing really bad connect speeds, of late.
Telecon's speed test shows 4.98 Mbps, while
USA based servers are indicating 2.5 Mbps.

HALF what Telecon says!

I suppose Telecon is just testing within NZ, still?

[Rose McGillicuddy]

Pclinuxos has a minime version which fits on a CD, and Vectorlinux have a lighter version for a CD also.  Am hoping to try the Vectorlinux verson, so will let you know how it goes.

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[Chris Morris]

On 07/11/12 14:42, Perry Spiller wrote:

I'll check to see if their drive is dual DVD/CD.

What do you suggest I do to obtain a bootable
USB option? What size is involved?

You should first find out if the old PC is capable of booting from a USB drive.
Some will have this as a stand-alone option in the BIOS, some will just see the usbdrive as another HDD.

http://www.pendrivelinux.com/universal-usb-installer-easy-as-1-2-3/

Use this ^^ to turn any CD/DVD ISO into a bootable USB drive

4GB+ USB drive recommended - you can also use a digital camera card (via a card reader)

chris

[Perry Spiller]

I don't know the specs of the neighbour's machine, but
it is running W7. I went over to fix their Thunderbird
e-mail. Had to go back to an older version to get past
all the password problems. They were very grateful
and expressed an interest in Linux as, (it seems) the
computer is not used for any program that can't be
run under Linux.


----------------Earlier, Rose commented--------------------

Pclinuxos has a minime version which fits on a CD, and Vectorlinux have a lighter version for a CD also.  Am hoping to try the Vectorlinux verson, so will let you know how it goes.


On 7 November 2012 14:42, Perry Spiller <p.sp...@xtra.co.nz> wrote:

Are live CD versions still around? I found an old

copy of Ubuntu Live CD, but I'm guessing that

the h/ware was a bit too modern for it, when it

was tried (and failed) on a neighbour's machine.

----------------Then Chris commented--------------------

Most distros are Live DVD or bootable USB image

these days. Some of the light-weight ones still do CD's.

I'll check to see if their drive is dual DVD/CD.

What do you suggest I do to obtain a bootable

USB option? What size is involved?

[Rose McGillicuddy]

I'm writing this from my laptop using Vectorlinux  live CD.  Haven't had a proper explore yet but wireless set up was easy, although the desktop is very different from Windows.  I can burn another CD and post to you if you like.  Vectorlinux has a reputation for speed, based on Slackware, but not necessarily ease of use.

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[Perry Spiller]

Kind of you to offer, Rose, but I suspect whatever distro it is will need
to be as close to a windoze desktop as possible/practical. Otherwise,
they might get quite lost, quite quickly.

I must ask them what s'ware they use, mainly. AFAIK, it's FF, Skype
and Thunderbird and some media player. Now that microcrapt owns
skype, has that created difficulties running it on a Linux box?


----------------Earlier, Rose commented--------------------

[Perry Spiller]

----------------Earlier, you commented--------------------

It's not a very old PC, Chris.

Is running from a USB stick faster/slower
than running from a DVD/CD?

Thanks for the link, too.

[Chris Morris]

On 07/11/12 22:17, Perry Spiller wrote:
> It's not a very old PC, Chris.
>
> Is running from a USB stick faster/slower
> than running from a DVD/CD?

In my experience its generally quicker running/installing from USB.
You can also run the " LiveCD" from your USB stick and because its
writable, you are able to save settings and personal files etc so it
becomes a removable/portable OS.

chris

[Rose McGillicuddy]

Pclinuxos is great for Windoows users, especially with the kde desktop - bloated of course though :-)

Skype has given me nothing but trouble recently, on a Windows box as well.  Crashes if I try to load video - it's quite a known problem, but haven't actually logged on for a couple of weeks.  Will try remember to try it on my Linux laptop and see what happens, and will report back.

FF and Tbird both work well in Linux, but I now use web base email and find it way more convenient - have it wherever you are, and the address book as well.  KSCD plays CDs, although I think pclos may have changed that, and kaffiene used to do DVDs. 

Do they have a scanner, digital camera etc?  Sometimes a bit more work to get them recognised, and my Canon scanner doesn't work in Linux at all, although I understand real techie types can take code from the scanner set up and add it to Linux, but way beyond me!!  I have had several digital cameras recognised and able to upload photos using digikam in Pclos.

I know the 'Buntus are generally regarded as being the most new user friendly, but i've had way better results with Pclos.

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