Minolta 2300 and Slackware

[jvolm]

I'm running Slackware-current on my machine, and I want to print to the lab's main printer, which is a Minolta 2300DL hooked up to an XP machine.

I got the foo2jzs driver and installed it successfully, according to the instructions here (http://home.mn.rr.com/richardsons/foo2zjs/). I had to stop at the last step, as that I'm in Slackware. I also went to linuxprinting.org and went through their FAQ for the printer, installed the PPD and foomatic. Those went in fine, CUPS and KDE's wizard both saw the correct driver & PPD.

It all seemed smooth, but it won't print. Normally because it can't connect to the remote machine ("[i]device is busy....[.i]). I have the name of the XP box in my hosts file, and I have a directory on it mounted on my Linux box, so I know I have network access.

I tried modifying it through CUPS, and through the KDE wizard, but the %#@^! thing still won't print. I am the "guy that knows computers" around the lab that we have in lieu of a real IT guy, so I can do (almost) whatever I want to both machines, short of putting Linux on the printer's computer.

Any ideas? I'm sick of walking to a Windows machine every time I want to print.

[mdwatts]

Would you not need to use Samba (file & print sharing for Linux/Windows) in order to print to a printer connected to a XP system?

[jvolm]

Makes sense. I don't know, like I said, I was just following the instructions I found online. I've never set up a printer like this before.

But you're right, samba makes more sense. Oh well, nice brainfart. on my part. I'll try samba today.