Permissions look fine.

Also, when I type in play *somefile* in the console, it plays it fine! I don''t get this stuff.

Here''s something: if I tell GAim to use a command to play sounds and make that command "play *file goes here*" no sound plays, but if I kill ESD and try it, I get sound from GAim.

I don''t use ESD, so I''m not completely sure if it would interfere with other sound systems (I think play uses OSS by default). You can tell Gnome to start or not to start ESD in the Gnome control panel (in Gnome 1.4, at least; I still haven''t tried 2.x). If you just have everything use the same sound system hopefully nothing will be conflicting .

I did get something to print through my sister''s printer while her computer was running Windows. I''m not sure how I did it though (it was 3-something A.M. ). I''ll try to set it up again, and remember what I''m doing, sometime later.

I installed the following packages in Debian before beginning:

1. cupsys


2. cupsys-bsd


3. cupsys-client


4. cupsys-drivers-gimpprint


5. samba* (everything )

Many or all of those could already be installed in Mandrake, and they probably are named differently. Here's the manual setup I did:

1. Make sure there is a symlink called 'smb' in /usr/lib/cups/backend to smbspool. Restart cups if you have to add it.
   
2. Then open a browser and go to http://localhost:631/, type in root and your password.


3. Click "Add Printer" and type in whatever you want here and click "Continue".


4. Select "Windows Printer via SAMBA" and click "Continue".


5. Type this in the next textbox: smb://workgroup/ip-address/printer-name. Replace workgroup with the workgroup of the Windows machine (e.g. WORKGROUP). Replace ip-address with the real IP address of the Windows machine (e.g. 10.0.0.4). And replace printer-name with the share name of the printer on the Windows machine (e.g. BJC-2100). Click "Continue".


6. Now select the correct model and driver for the printer (my sister's printer isn't officially supported by GIMP-Print, but I found out that the BJC-4300 driver works for it from this page, you might want to look there if your printer isn't on the list too). Click "Continue".


7. Now click the "Printers" button at the top of the page. Next to the printer you just added click "Print Test Page". If it works, great . Otherwise, make sure guests are allowed to print to that printer on the Windows machine and try again. There's a little message thing on that page that tells you what's happening if you're not sure why it failed.


8. Do any configuration you want from the "Configure Printer" page.

Now, to test it from an application:

1. Open up gedit and type something.


2. Click on "Print"


3. Click the "Printer" tab.


4. Click the radio button to the right of "Default Printer" and type in the name of the printer we just created (it'll be at the top of the "Printers" page in the CUPS configuration dealie).


5. Click print and hope it works .

There may be some differences from Debian to Mandrake; both are pretty good about LSB, so they should be minimal. Good luck with all of that .



[edited by - Null and Void on September 27, 2002 8:17:00 PM]

HEY! Samba works! I''ve never been able to get it to work before! I works, right out of the box! I just decided to try it, and there it goes!

Now I just have to setup a Samba server!