Topic: Printer share & e-smith/Executing files

[Glenn Kennedy]

Has anyone shared a printer under e-smith? I'd rather have my printer connected to e-smith than my windoze box. This would save powering up windoze box A, which is currently attached to my printer, when I want to print from windoze box B.

And an unrelated question: (forgive my novice linux skills) when attempting to run installers other than rpm's, ie. filename -x, i get the error "bash: [filename]: command not found". What does this mean? Does it have something to do with the stripped down nature of e-smith's redhat linux? How do I execute file?

Thanks,

Glenn Kennedy

[Charlie Brady]

Glenn Kennedy wrote:

> Has anyone shared a printer under e-smith? I'd rather have my
> printer connected to e-smith than my windoze box. This would
> save powering up windoze box A, which is currently attached to
> my printer, when I want to print from windoze box B.

Yes, people are running printers under e-smith. There are some patches to e-smith 3.x in the contrib directory of ftp.e-smith.net. There's also a beta of e-smith 4.0 released today which includes printer support. Since you have novice linux skills, you might be best to wait for a few weeks then upgrade.

> And an unrelated question: (forgive my novice linux skills)
> when attempting to run installers other than rpm's, ie.
> filename -x, i get the error "bash: [filename]: command
> not found". What does this mean? Does it have something to
> do with the stripped down nature of e-smith's redhat linux?
> How do I execute file?

./filename -x

"filename" does not appear in your current PATH - it does not include ".". There is lots of excellent linux documentation you can find from http://www.linuxdoc.org/.

Charlie