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    [โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    What about cups, they have no driver for that printer there?

    I have a LaserJet 1000, 20+ years old, only works Linux and Windows x86 ๐Ÿ˜‚... so I just set up a peint server and shared it ๐Ÿคท.

    [โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    The driver shows up as "cups + gutenprint" and as far i can tell there is no other. so i guess that is already the one and only available driver.

    and i have to correct myself, it is a Canon, not a Brother. Canon MX300 from 2007.

    I mean it is not that big of a deal anyway. there is a single Windows machine left in this household that i can use for print jobs. and yeah, maybe i could use it as print server, that is actually a interesting idea lol.

    [โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

    Try searching online for cups filters. Maybe someone made a custom filter file for that printer that works... worth a shot ๐Ÿคท. I've had luck hunting down custom filters for some obscure printers in the past.

    Setting up a shared printer in Windows is (could be) a PITA though... not being able to choose SMB versions can make your Linux setups with SMB a pain ๐Ÿ˜”. That's why I prefer Linux with samba as the print server, you can fine tune almost everything to make it work with any Windows and Linux install.

    [โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    thanks for the tip, i will have a look!

    and yeah, funny enough i had less problems getting SMB to work between linux and windows than windows and windows despite it being a Microsoft native.

    [โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    Also, true story, LTSC 2019 can't see shares from LTSC 2021, but the opposite works without a problem ๐Ÿคฃ. It was a bug, they eventually fixed it, but took them like a year or so (they threw the ball at users, not setting up the shares correctly ๐Ÿ˜’), and I already reinstalled all rigs with LTSC 2019, so... too late MS ๐Ÿคท... I haven't used LTSC 2021 from that point on.