Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2912 mails)

[Mike McMullin <mwmcmlln@xxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 07:21, Kenneth Payne wrote:
> This problem may really be a Windows XP issue, but I'm posting here because
> - let's face it - the people on this list are experts on everything.
> 
> I used to access an Epson Stylus Color 860 printer share on a Windows 98 box 
> from my SuSE Linux 9.0 machine using Samba. No problems. However, the Windows 
> 98 machine has been retired and the printer is now on a Windows XP machine.
>  
> Now I cannot print to it from Linux.
> 
> Linux just doesn't see the share.
> 
> "smbclient -L host" returns all the shares on the XP machine. The printer is 
> not one of them.
> 
> File sharing, however, works fine.
> 
> Two other Windows 98 machines on the network also fail to see the share. So it 
> looks like this is not a Linux-to-Windows problem.
> 
> So I'm forced to conclude one of two things:
> 
> Either the Windows XP drivers for the printer do not allow networking or there 
> is some trick to sharing a printer on Windows XP that I do not know about.
> 
> This is quite possible as I use Linux almost exclusively these days and 
> Windows is just a fading nightmare as far as I'm concerned.
> 
> Does anyone have any observations or advice about how I should go about
> trying to resolve the issue?

  Google for it.  There are a large number of hits on xp+printer+sharing

Here's one example :
http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1596
it has info on sharing printers from XP.