Mohamed Ibrahim’s Blog

As usual, I saw the update icon in Ubuntu’s taskbar so I ran apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade, and as I read I found an update for freenx. When dpkg was installing the newer version it said that the configuration file node.conf is different. I pressed D to run diff on them to see whether the old problems were solved or not. I believe this package should be bug free almost for every one.

The package sources I’m using are:

deb http://www.datakeylive.com/ubuntu gutsy main
deb-src http://www.datakeylive.com/ubuntu gutsy main

Ok… I was trying to do this in my home network, and for the very first moment any one trying to do this will think about using a samba share. There’s another way, which is much simpler.

Set up the cups server and allow internet printing from your cups server. Go to your windows, add a printer and use http://IP-address-of-linux:631/printers/<PrinterNameInCups>

That’s it ! choose the correct printer driver from the windows drivers, mine was HP1100 LaserJet.  It worked flawlessly with on troubles.

On the windows side I’m using XP and the linux side is ubuntu gusty.