Yes, attached to my wife's parallel port. If I can get my situation working I might be able to help on the XP thing. Sorry. We used to use the router, which had a parallel port attached to it and it became a print server, but she had to use the printer as a scanner, so bye-bye to that. <boy am I glad i spent the extra couple bucks on that now useless feature> I'm not sure if there's a way to do it without an IP, but to me it would seem like you need the 2 computers connected some how. Tom On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 21:35, Dan Coalman wrote: When you say "Attached to my wife's laptop", do you mean it's attached to the parallel port? I have an HP1100 connected (LPT1) to and shared on a Windoze XPee machine and can't get to it whatsoever from my Linux laptop. Linux see's the printer in LinNeighborhood, but I can't mount it, and YaST doesn't see it at all. I'd realize I can configure the printer using IP, but then I have to get a JetDirect box. Is there a way to configure this printer to share Linux/Windoze without using IP? If there's documentation on this, it's not from SuSe. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Nielsen" <tom@neuro-logic.com> To: <jaakko.tamminen@co.inet.fi> Cc: "Suse" <suse-linux-e@suse.com> Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 2:51 PM Subject: Re: [SLE] Need help printing from Win98 shared printer > Jaska, > > I think that's what I did in YAST2 and it found it. (Unfortunately I did > this this morning and can't remember exactly what I did). I guess the > problem was getting it setup in KDE's Printing Manager. > > Tom > > On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 15:17, jaakko tamminen wrote: > > Hi > > To be short, install LPR, configure samba-printer with yast2, give the IP and > printer name if needed (get it in text-console with command "smbclient -L > <laptop-ip>"). > > Then it should work. > > Jaska. > > > On Friday 01 November 2002 00:16, Tom Nielsen wrote: > > Here's the background info: My wife and I each have our own systems at > > home. She has a laptop with Win98 and I have 8.0. We're both connected > > to a router for our internet connection. I have been able to start Samba > > and have her see my hard drive (not that one! the one on my computer). > > So we can connect with each other. We have an HP 1170cxi that's > > attached to her laptop (both belong to her company). > > > > So this morning I decided to share the HP that was connected to laptop > > so I could print from it. From my machine, I managed to use YAST and > > find the printer. But that's where the story ends. I could not figure > > out how to set it up in KDE under print manager. At one point I managed > > to find the printer but could not print anything to it, I think I used > > RLPR to do so. > > > > My question is what do ya'll think I should use as a print system to do > > this? CUPS, Unix LPD, LPR or RLPR??? > > > > I found it strange that YAST could find the printer but KDE Printing > > Manager couldn't. > > > > Feel free to start tossing ideas!!! > > > > Thanks, > > Tom > > > > -- > Check the headers for your unsubscription address > For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com > Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com > Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com > > > > > -- > > > Tom Nielsen > Neuro Logic Systems > 805.389.5435 x18 > www.neuro-logic.com > -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com