On Friday 24 October 2008 02:17:04 pm 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?
Under Vista (and other versions of windows) you need to enable lpd print services. This is done under Control Panel > Programs > Programs and Features
Windows Features > Print Services > LPD Print Service.
Share the windows printer via a tcp port. It will become a LPD printer. You can share the printer via lpd://ip.address.of.printer/queue_name. For example, on my wife's Win2K computer, she has a DeskJet shared as HPOffice. My printer configuration (and my cups) has 192.168.0.100/HPOffice. On my Vista machine at work, I have the printer shared as lj1320. It is listed as lpd://101.101.101.72/lj1320. Here's a website I used to configure this stuff: http://www.swerdna.net.au/linhowtosambaprint.html I don't think there's any command line so that's a good thing! :) -- kai www.filesite.org || www.perfectreign.com Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it. - Dee Hock -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org