Ken - Thanks for your help. It seems, though, that I'm going to have to move the printer to the Linux box anyway and share it from there because at the Windows end, I found I could not share the printer! Back to square one. By the way, I do not have a Control Centre - Peripherals - Printer module, only digital camera, keyboard and mouse. Is that right? Anyway, the Control Centre -- System -- Printing Manager seems to have eveything I might need. Best wishes - Ken On Saturday 07 June 2003 12:26 pm, Ken Schneider wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: Kenneth Payne
To: SuSe mailing list 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