Printing on a Windows shared printer via Linux with CUPS
August 26, 2008
I have installed my Canon LBP2900 I-SENSYS on my girlfriends Windows laptop, and shared the printer. I have previously http://firmit.wordpress.com/2008/04/10/canon-lbp2900-setup/ showed howto setup the printer via USB.
What you need is the ppd-file – which is available at Canon’s official site:
Download and extract, and install the two debian packages with
$ sudo dpkg -i cndrvcups-common_1.60-1_i386.deb cndrvcups-capt_1.60-1_i386.deb
Now, install printer via samba in cups or via your DE – Gnome has a GUI way of doing this, but cups works like a charm.
http://localhost:631
Add new printer -> Device: Windows printer via Samba
Device URI: smb://administrator/192.168.2.1/canon
This of course points to the Canon LBP2900 with shared name “canon” on administrator@192.168.2.1 with no password. Worked from the word GO!
IPv6 Firefox
August 25, 2008
I have not had much trouble with speed using my Debian/LXDE with Firefox/Iceweasel. But after I moved, and connected my computer to a new network, things turned around! It was veeery slow!
However, it was easily solvable – goto about:config in firefox and set
network.dns.disableIPv6 = true
This changed everything!
