printing to my windows machine

[Brad Fonseca]

Hi,

Tried that and:

[linuxbrad at localhost linuxbrad]$ smbclient -L msbrad
added interface ip=192.168.1.102 bcast=192.168.1.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
Connection to msbrad failed
[linuxbrad at localhost linuxbrad]$

Any ideas?

Brad

On October 11, 2004 17:06, Jing Su wrote:
> you can see the shares by doing:
>
> smbclient -L <name of windows machine>
>
> I don't know Mandrake, but if there's a printer setup utility, it will
> likely have an option for setting up a SMB printer.  Just point it to your
> windows machine and you should be able to print as normal.
>
> On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, Brad Fonseca wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 17:02:37 -0400
> > From: Brad Fonseca <linuxbrad-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org>
> > Reply-To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
> > To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
> > Subject: Re: [TLUG]: printing to my windows machine
> >
> > Okay, windows is sharing the printer as far as I know.  I'd rather not
> > spend more money now on additional hardware so a print server is out.  My
> > machines are up all the time anyway.  How do I "browse [my] Samba share"?
> >
> > Brad
> >
> > On October 11, 2004 16:42, Noah John Gellner wrote:
> > > The windows machine is the Samba (SMB) host. You will need to share the
> > > printer using windows then use Linux to browse your Samba share. I have
> > > a similar setup but I found it much less hassle to use a print server.
> > > That way I don't need to have both machines turned on to print. I think
> > > that a print server costs around $50.
> >
> > <snip>
> >
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