Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3729 mails)

[Kenneth Payne <kmp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joe -

Thanks for your help. But I'm going to scratch the idea anyway because I can't 
get the printer to share on the Windows machine. I'm going to put the printer 
on the Linux box and share from there.

Thanks again

- Ken

On Saturday 07 June 2003 12:43 pm, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
> On 06/07/2003 05:19 PM, Kenneth Payne wrote:
> >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 have found the KDE Print Manager does an excellent job.  You will need
> to install the samba client rpm, then just follow the steps.  You will
> be connecting to an SMB printer.  That is what I do (got a Canon printer
>
> :-( ).  HTH.  BTW, I never bought 8.1, but it worked fine for both 8.0
>
> and 8.2.