[opensuse] Sharing Printer With Vista
My wife has purchased a laptop which is running Vista. I need to know how to share the printer which is attached to my desktop. The desktop is running openSuSE 11.0, KDE 4.2. Can someone give me step-by-step instructions (or guide me to them on the web) for sharing the printer on my home network so my wife can access the printer on her Vista laptop? Any help is greatly appreciated. Rick -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Rick Friedman
My wife has purchased a laptop which is running Vista.
I need to know how to share the printer which is attached to my desktop. The desktop is running openSuSE 11.0, KDE 4.2. Can someone give me step-by-step instructions (or guide me to them on the web) for sharing the printer on my home network so my wife can access the printer on her Vista laptop?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Rick
Install Cups. Define printer there-to, and Vista will see it. (Providing you get the permissions right). If you run Samba on that machine, you can share via Samba without having to use CUPS. But being Old School, I like cups. It has a web based management facility you can control with a web browser. -- ----------JSA--------- Someone stole my tag line, so now I have this rental. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
John Andersen wrote:
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Rick Friedman
wrote: My wife has purchased a laptop which is running Vista.
I need to know how to share the printer which is attached to my desktop. The desktop is running openSuSE 11.0, KDE 4.2. Can someone give me step-by-step instructions (or guide me to them on the web) for sharing the printer on my home network so my wife can access the printer on her Vista laptop?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Rick
Install Cups. Define printer there-to, and Vista will see it. (Providing you get the permissions right).
If you run Samba on that machine, you can share via Samba without having to use CUPS. But being Old School, I like cups. It has a web based management facility you can control with a web browser.
I already use CUPS to define the printer. I've specified the printer as shared in CUPS. I'm not sure what else to do. The printer cannot be found in Vista. For that matter, the entire Linux machine does not show up on the network when I check the network from my wife's Vista laptop. What do I need to do? Rick -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Rick Friedman
John Andersen wrote:
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Rick Friedman
wrote: My wife has purchased a laptop which is running Vista.
I need to know how to share the printer which is attached to my desktop. The desktop is running openSuSE 11.0, KDE 4.2. Can someone give me step-by-step instructions (or guide me to them on the web) for sharing the printer on my home network so my wife can access the printer on her Vista laptop?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Rick
Install Cups. Define printer there-to, and Vista will see it. (Providing you get the permissions right).
If you run Samba on that machine, you can share via Samba without having to use CUPS. But being Old School, I like cups. It has a web based management facility you can control with a web browser.
I already use CUPS to define the printer. I've specified the printer as shared in CUPS. I'm not sure what else to do. The printer cannot be found in Vista. For that matter, the entire Linux machine does not show up on the network when I check the network from my wife's Vista laptop.
What do I need to do?
Start here: http://www.owlfish.com/thoughts/winipp-cups-2003-07-20.html You need to make sure your Linux firewall is not blocking port 631. You need check your cups config to be sure it will allow use of the printer from your local network. You need to Tell Vista to add a TCP printing device using the ip address and port 631. -- ----------JSA--------- Someone stole my tag line, so now I have this rental. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Rick Friedman wrote:
John Andersen wrote:
For that matter, the entire Linux machine does not show up on the network when I check the network from my wife's Vista laptop.
What do I need to do?
THAT's a different issue entirely! The Samba machine is loosing the master browser war. Check the workgroup & domain settings, .. you might have to force a share - have you tried using the UNC name on the Vista machine? Lee ============================================== Leland V. Lammert lvl@omnitec.net Chief Scientist Omnitec Corporation Network/Internet Consultants www.omnitec.net ============================================== -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 4:58 PM, L. V. Lammert
On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Rick Friedman wrote:
John Andersen wrote:
For that matter, the entire Linux machine does not show up on the network when I check the network from my wife's Vista laptop.
What do I need to do?
THAT's a different issue entirely! The Samba machine is loosing the master browser war. Check the workgroup & domain settings, .. you might have to force a share - have you tried using the UNC name on the Vista machine?
You don't need to have vista "see" the printer's host in network neighborhood (or what ever Vista calls it) in order to use a CUPS printer. I have Cups printers in other Cities defined to windows machines with the simple ipp://ip-address:631/printers/printer-name specification. http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=83557 -- ----------JSA--------- Someone stole my tag line, so now I have this rental. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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