This is not a Dell 1710n. Therefore, it has no networking capability. It is connected to a Windows 7 64-bit computer that has the printer connected via USB and is shared.
So far, I have found that it uses the generic PCL 6 driver (even though there are two of them).
I am trying to connecting using the Printers section under the System Settings Cog. I click Add. Then I click Find Network Printer. I type in the machine name of the printer host and click Find. I type my username, the domain name, and my password, and click OK.
It then has a listing for the printer in Samba. Then the authentication window I leave as is. My belief is that it will require the instructor to put in their username and password to allow the students to print. If I want to set it up to always print using username, how should I set the authentication details? If that fails, will it show up with my password in such a way that they can Show Characters and see my password?
On Choose Drivers, I select the PC: 6/PCL XL driver and click Forward. On Describe Printer, I leave it as is and click Apply.
Then I get a CUPS server error that says 'client-error-request-value-too-long'. What does that error mean?
I would like to set up the Dell 1710 printers on Ubemix. How would you explain that to someone (me) who knows very little about Ubuntu and Linux in general.