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It's OK if you cry (infosec.pub)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Try searching online for cups filters. Maybe someone made a custom filter file for that printer that works... worth a shot 🤷. 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 😔. 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Also, true story, LTSC 2019 can't see shares from LTSC 2021, but the opposite works without a problem 🤣. 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 😒), and I already reinstalled all rigs with LTSC 2019, so... too late MS 🤷... I haven't used LTSC 2021 from that point on.