nihcalasnab wrote:
hi i just wanted to know which method to go about connecting my printer to my linux machine which is currently connected to the winxp wrkgrp machine. scott, will cups work in this situation. to my understanding i should be using samba printing services. just let me know the service or system i should be using in my situation. and if it is to be samba printing service, give me some configuration steps to be made in the conf file. On my workgroup(network), I have my printer plugged into my linux machine via the parallel port and I use SAMBA to allow the Win_XP machine to print to it.
I unfortunately do not remember the files I edited but I will chip in now and again. I can remember I used xpp and CUPS via the web interface of http://localhost:631 HiH -- The Little Helper ======================================================================== Hylton Conacher - Linux user # 229959 at http://counter.li.org Currently using SuSE 9.0 Professional with KDE 3.1 Licenced Windows user ========================================================================