Re: [ :-) ] Re: printer driver issue.

2004-10-25 Thread David Harel
OK, I was not aware of the story not to mention the acronym RMS. Sorry for the ignorance. Omer Zak wrote: Hello David, I apologize if you were offended by my sarcasm-sounding message. It was not my intention. My intention was only to laugh about the situation - that someone has a problem with non

Re: [ :-) ] Re: printer driver issue.

2004-10-25 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 12:11:30PM +0200, Daniel Feiglin wrote: > I don't understand the sarcasm either. Sarcasm is the cheapest form of wit. Omer did not intend to be saracastic, he only refered to Richard Stallman, who quit MIT after getting a printer with no source for the printer driver, being

Re: [ :-) ] Re: printer driver issue.

2004-10-25 Thread David Harel
Thank you for your reply but, It seems to me you confused things. The printer is physically attached to a MS machine and is shared. It works OK on the MS machine. All I want to do is use it from my Linux. I do not see what it has to do with samba server part. As it seems to me, the files I want t

Re: [ :-) ] Re: printer driver issue.

2004-10-25 Thread Daniel Feiglin
I don't understand the sarcasm either. Sarcasm is the cheapest form of wit. I have a similar setup with Win 98 SE clients using an HP 5550 on a Linux/Samba setup. (For what it's worth, I'm using SuSE 9.1, kernel 2.6.5-7.111, KDE 3.2 and Samba 3.0.2a-5.1) 1. Set up your printer under Linux using

Re: [ :-) ] Re: printer driver issue.

2004-10-25 Thread Omer Zak
Hello David, I apologize if you were offended by my sarcasm-sounding message. It was not my intention. My intention was only to laugh about the situation - that someone has a problem with none other than a printer driver!!! Several years after RMS had his printer driver problem. Anyway, the theor

Re: [ :-) ] Re: printer driver issue.

2004-10-25 Thread David Harel
I really don't understand your sarcasm. I guess you are making a fool of me but I still didn't get it. Yet I do not know how to fix the problem. Is it a driver issue or merely a setup issue I did not do correctly? Omer Zak wrote: Of course, the printer driver is having a serious problem. You'll

[ :-) ] Re: printer driver issue.

2004-10-24 Thread Omer Zak
Of course, the printer driver is having a serious problem. You'll need to found a big organization to have the world get rid of the problem. You have precedents in the form of the FSF and RMS (who had his own printer driver troubles). (I just could not resist saying this, as the GNU and GPL st