printing to my windows machine

Tue Oct 12 16:40:50 UTC 2004

On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 04:28:41PM -0400, Brad Fonseca wrote:
> This is a newbie question.  I have a windows XP desktop with a DeskJet 932C 
> printer attached to it.  I also have a laptop running Mandrake 9.2.  Both 
> computers are attached to a Linksys router.  I want to print from 
> applications on my laptop to the printer on this network.  I know I'm 
> supposed to use Samba somehow.  I'm not sure how I'm supposed to configure 
> it.  Where do I find the 'SMB server host'?
> 
> I'm very confused.  I'm not sure what questions I should be asking.  Please 
> help!

Well with CUPS it is easy to use a windows printer since as part of the
printer setup in CUPS it asks for the port, and SMB: is one of the
options, allowing you to simply tell cups that the printer is on the
windows machine (smb://windowshostnameORip/printersharename).  Then you
pick the right driver for the printer and you are set.

Lennart Sorensen
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