On 27 Aug 2001 12:00:37 -0400, Eric Warner wrote:
SuSE 7.0 Pers, Kernel 2.2.19, X 4.1, KDE 2.2, Samba 2.0.10
Looking for some advice/help. This may be a samba issue, but Im just not sure.
Windows98 machine with a shared printer named HP4 (no password) and queue name of HP4; printer sharing is turned on in the network setup. Host files on both machines have corresponding entries so that each computer can be ping'd by name or IP...
The printers at my job are all hooked up to Windows machines. I tried several different approaches and finally settled on CUPS as the easiest. Once it was installed, I started up netscape as root and used the URL "http://localhost:631/" to get to the adminstration page. CUPS will use samba as a backend to connect to the printer. You may need to add a link to use your Windows printer if, while adding a printer, you get to the "device" page and don't see an entry for "Windows printer via Samba". The docs say to do (as root): ln -s `which smbspool` /usr/lib/cups/backend/smb That was all I needed to do. Both it and samba should be available either on your CDs or the SuSE website. Daniel