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["Ken Schneider" <kschneider@xxxxxxxx>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Kenneth Payne <kmp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: SuSe mailing list <suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2003 10:19:25 +0100
Subject: [SLE] Networking printers with Samba

> I know you can share a printer attached to a Linux box with Windows
> machines 
> on the same network by using Samba. But can a Linux box access a
> printer 
> attached to a Windows machine?
> 
> If so, can anyone give me some general guidelines as to how to go about
> it?
> 
> I'm using SuSE 8.1
> 
> Thanks
> 
> - Ken
> 
You can do this through the KDE Control Center-->> Peripherals--Printers

First make sure the printer on the M$ box is shared.

For the type of connection use SMB.

The rest should be self explainatory.


This is the setup I use here. The wife insists the the printer be
connected to her PC because of some of the printer features.

Ken