printing to my windows machine

[Austin]

Just run printerdrake.  If you have setup the windows machine to share
the printer, printerdrake will be able to look for it.

Austin

On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 17:06 -0400, 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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