Electronics Design Printing on SuSE 11 64 bit

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Printing on SuSE 11 64 bit MooseFET 07-22-08
Posted by MooseFET on July 22, 2008, 9:46 am
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I know that millions of you will also be working on this problem with
SuSE 11, CUPS, SAMBA and printing.

If you

# **** start of fix
cd /usr/lib64/cups/backend

#save the SuSE version
mv smb smb.old

#make it work
ln -s /usr/bin/smbspool smb
# **** end of fix

printing through CUPS and SAMBA to a printer on a windows machine will
start working.

My wife owns the fancy laser printer so this was important to me. I
know that most Linux users will (A) run the faster machine as the
server or (B) plug the printer directly into the network. It seems
that they forgot to test the rare case of those who want to have the
SMB printer server be the wife's machine.

Other than this, I will say that SuSE-11 running KDE3 is no worse than
SuSE-10.2 in a few places it seems better. It comes with "octave 3.0"
installed and a newer version of "qcad".

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