As the topic states, I have an HP printer (HP 1210) hooked up to my windows xp box via USB and I have samba setup to share this printer in linux through the network.
Only problem was, I couldn't print anything from it from linux. The printer would act like it was going to start to print, but then it would just stop. The print queue had a document called "remote downlevel document" and it would just sit there until I shut off the printer and deleted the job.
So, after googling for a little bit on how to correct this, I found the solution:
Quote:On the Win XP machine, open printers and faxes, right click the icon for theshared printer, select properties. On the ports tab of the properties dialogue
, select the port with the shared printer and deselect "Enable bi-directional
support". That should fix it.
And it did fix it! I was so excited! This has been a problem since the beginning for me. It was nice to know that it was just as easy as disabling the "bi-directional support".
I hope this can help other people along the way too.
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I primarily use a laptop (college, you know how it is) and I've found Linux to be far superior to Windows in many areas. Gaming aside (I generally keep a Windows install just for this purpose, as I'm too lazy to monkey with Cedega), my main issue with Linux is my laptop's battery life.
Specifically, my battery life is approximately half what it would be in Windows. I've tried using Ubuntu/Kubuntu and Gentoo (I run it on my home box happily, so I figured I'd be able to do it properly on my laptop as well) and I couldn't get battery life to be anything close to what I'd like and what I require.
My laptop is an HP Compaq nc8430 with an Intel Core Duo T2500 2.00 GHz processor. I know there's an implementation of SpeedStep or equivalent that the processor uses, and I watched the frequency change with the performance monitor in Kubuntu, so I know that distribution at least uses the scaling properly. But even with the freq. knocked down to 1 GHz, my battery kept draining twice as fast as windows.
I'm generally horrible at using google to search for things, so if this sort of issue has been addressed elsewhere, I haven't found it.
Any suggestions?
p.s. I hope this is an acceptable place to post this topic.
Ok first things first, I REALLY wanted to learn linux that's why I installed it but now I am having doubts. My yum doesn't work properly my sound doesn't work, and I can't network my cpu correctly with my roommates so I'm giving up. All I want to do now is just get my mp3's back onto my windows XP sp2 hard drive, but apparently it's impossible to do. I tried going through windows and accessing the hard drive but then my linux hard drive wasn't being read. I installed magic partition program on my XP drive and then the linux drive finally showed up but I couldnt access any folders inside. So now I'm trying the reverse going through my FC5 drive to access my XP drive and transfer the files over. However, I'm stuck I don't know where to go or what commands to use to access my XP drive, I don't even think it's being detected by the OS (in BIOS however it IS being read). I don't know if I have to mount it or not or anything like that, so I didn't try Dan's newbie tutorial guide on mounting NTFS drives. I don't want to do something that permanently screws me over, so I'm asking here first. I typed fdisk -l in my su directory and it showed up as this:
Disk /dev/hda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 14 14593 117113850 8e Linux LVM
Disk /dev/hdb: -955586550 MB, 72058857482354688 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, -1 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk /dev/hdb doesn't contain a valid partition table
I have no idea what that means can someone please help so this noob can go back to XP and leave this linux world. I REALLY need step by step process because I am utterly lost. Thanks in advance, sorry for being the super noob of all noobs........
Quote:A recent security advisory announced today by Rapid7 explains, "the NVIDIA Binary Graphics Driver for Linux is vulnerable to a buffer overflow that allows an attacker to run arbitrary code as root. This bug can be exploited both locally or remotely (via a remote X client or an X client which visits a malicious web page). A working proof-of-concept root exploit is attached to this advisory." The advisory goes on to note that the FreeBSD and Solaris binary drivers are also likely vulnerable and cautions, "it is our opinion that NVIDIA's binary driver remains an unacceptable security risk based on the large numbers of reproducible, unfixed crashes that have been reported in public forums and bug databases."
