mdlbear | I Love Linux (mostly) (Reply)

In marked contrast to Windows, I rebooted the laptop into Linux, reconfigured security on the CUPS demon so it would talk to the network like a real print server, browsed to port 631, clicked the administration tab, and saw the printer there, correctly recognized. Added it and printed a test page. Total time, about 10 minutes. Would have been less if I hadn't had to read the documentation on the config file.

The driver doesn't know about CD printing, but if the Mac or XP can do it over a network, I'm in. Otherwise I can always use the Mac laptop with a USB connection. Not going to worry about it much; I think I can get ABT pre-printed. (00:33 as it turns out, it does appear to know about CDs -- it's right there in the Media box on the CUPS printer options page. W00T!)

OTOH, I'm still struggling to make a CD-Extra (2-session CD/CDROM). For some bizarre reason the drive objects to using disk-at-once mode in the second session, and if I use track-at-once mode it works but the CDROM won't mount. GAAARGH! It's conceivable that the new Samsung drive I bought today can handle it.

OTOH I may very well end up spending $20 on Nero for Linux. It even comes as a Debian package.