Re: [SLE] Windows and Linux printers

Jean Hendrickx wrote:

Hi Silviu, thanks for your comments. I worked with SCO from the beginning (Xenix) and I'm glad to replace it too ;-) they are less smarter each day ... I explained in my previous post why I didn't like CUPS (didn't handle a Printronix printer).

The routes are well defined, and I'm able to 'see' (ping) the other machines. I don't know _exactly_ what a WINS server does, and they are using fixed (static) IPs ... but of course, I'll do some tests.

A WINS server does netbios name resolution for Windows machines. You can easily setup a WINS server with samba/linux. In /etc/samba/smb.conf wins support = yes. Then start the nmb service. Do not define more than a WINS server.