I now understand that one piece of important informationwas left out of my original posting. The printer is alreadyconnected to the same network as the Window 7 and the CentOScomputers. Current access from the Windows 7 machine is viathe network supported by the GigE switch. On Saturday, January 2, 2016 4:21 AM, Nux! <nux at li.nux.ro> wrote: Why go through all this trouble when you can connect the printer to the network directly and be done with it? -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Chris Olson" <chris_e_olson at yahoo.com> > To: "CentOS Mailing List" <centos at centos.org> > Sent: Friday, 1 January, 2016 16:29:17 > Subject: [CentOS] HP OfficeJet Printing > There has been a bit of grumbling recently about HP printer capability > in one of our smallest prototyping Labs. We have a single GigE switch > connecting a Windows 7 machine and a Dell/CentOS-6 machine. The CentOS > machine also has connectivity via another network. Currently, only the > Windows 7 machine has been setup for printing on our HP OfficeJet 8615. > Our Samba effort on the CentOS system has not been successful so we use > Cygwin and ftp to move files to the Windows 7 system for printing. Being > able to print directly from the CentOS 6 system would be most convenient. > > Software supporting the HP OfficeJet Pro 8615 is apparently available > as indicated in the links and other information below. We also see > that hplip was apparently part of an installation or update performed > on the CentOS 6 Dell machine at some point in time. > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/hplip/?source=typ_redirect > http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/index.html > The current version of the HPLIP solution is: 3.15.11. > > [user at dell ~]$ uname -a > Linux dell 2.6.32-573.12.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Dec 15 21:19:08 2015\ > x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > [user at dell ~]$ > [user at dell ~]$ rpm -qa hplip > hplip-3.14.6-3.el6.x86_64 > [user at dell ~]$ > [user at dell ~]$ which hp-setup > > /usr/bin/hp-setup > > Using this open source software seems easy enough, but we have concerns > about printing from the Windows 7 machine if the CentOS 6 system is setup > for printing. > > Is there any significant possibility that printer setup or printer use > on the CentOS 6 system will negatively impact printing functionality > on the Windows 7 machine? > > Thanks in advance for any help or advice, and Happy New Year. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos