printing to my windows machine

[Frank Peng]

Brad,

I am doing the same thing as you. 

In order to detect Windows machine from Samba, you can
do it on the Samba machine:
smbclient -L localhost

If you can not see your windows machine, try ping his
ip address to see if any cable and network adapter
problem. 

If you can ping it but your Samba cannot see it, have
you make a root user for your Samba?
smbpasswd -a root

If you log on your Windows with a log name such as
Administrator, you need create a corresponding Samba
user:
smbpasswd -a administrator

And you also need go to /etc/smb.conf to make Samba
browse your local network, say, 192.168.0 

Also you need to create a user "root" in your Windows
to connect Samba's configuration interface,
http://<your samba ip iddress>:901

I have got in here. What ever I do I cannot make the
printer move. 

If you got cups running in your Linux, you can go
http://<your cups machine>:631 to add a printer but I
can never get a printer move. 

There are 3 way to make Linux work Windows printing:
SMB, WINDOWS UNIX PRINTING SERVER and Windows' HTTP.
Cups only deal with the last 2 services. 

I have another Windows machine, I even cannot get
another Windows to use this Windows printer.

There is a file called LMLOSTS in
\winnt\system32\dirvers\etc\, you can set up ip
address and host names for Windows to find the names.
But I still did not get it work. 

If you worked it out, please let me know .

Thanks all!

Frank Peng.


--- Brad Fonseca <linuxbrad-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> 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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