printing to my windows machine

[James Knott]

Brad Fonseca 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.

If you're using CUPS to set up your printers.  When you get to device 
type, you can select "Windows Printer via Samba" and then for device 
URL, you use something like smb://workgroup/server/sharename, to connect 
to the desired printer.
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