On 10/25/2008 05:17 AM, Rick Friedman wrote:
I should've been more specific about something. The openSuSE box is actually a dual-boot system. Seventy-five percent of the time it is up and running openSuSE, as it is now. The other twenty-five percent of the time it is running Vista so my kids can play their games.
I would still like for the printer to be available to their mother's laptop when the desktop is running Vista. So, on the Windows laptop, assigning the printer the ip address of the Cups server doesn't seem as though it will do the job for both situations.
Is there a way to share the printer with the laptop when the desktop is running linux and then when the desktop is running windows?
When it is running Vista, it would be shared via SMB. Though it is theoretically possible to setup samba on your Linux, and share it in a similar way to Windows, it does make the configuration a lot more complex. I would just add a second queue in Windows, and print to the one that corresponds to whatever the desktop is running at the time. If your home situation demands more seamlessness than that, then you would need to setup Samba, make sure both machines are on the same domain, share the printer via smb, and hope that any differences between Samba and Vista are minimal enough for the config to work. I know we had problems at work between win98 and XP when sharing printers (XP had problems printing to a 98 shared printer). HTH. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org