[TriLUG] accessing a windows shared printer from linux

Dan Monjar daniel.monjar at na.biomerieux.com
Tue Oct 28 13:58:30 EST 2003


--On Tuesday, October 28, 2003 10:08:35 AM -0500 Tanner Lovelace 
<lovelace at wayfarer.org> wrote:

>
> Ah! I see now.  Ok, to answer your questions... If you have the printer
> connected to your linux box you need the samba server running.  It should
> pick up the defined printer and automatically share it with the
> default configuration.  If you have the printer connected to your XP box,
> you don't need the samba server, but you do need the samba-client rpm
> installed.   You then setup cups to print to the XP box.
>
> Either way should work as you expect it.
>

Thanks all for the help... it is working.

-- 
Dan
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