Printing from SuSE machine to windows machine.
Dear my Pals..... I am confused now, my boss has 2 machines one SuSE Linux 8.1 and Windows 98. He wants to print his document from SuSE machine to windows machine. Is it possible ? If yes, how can I do that ? I know Samba server but the problem is the printer is not on Samba server but on the windows machine. Please tell me if you have a solution for my case. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Prabu Subroto wrote:
I am confused now, my boss has 2 machines one SuSE Linux 8.1 and Windows 98. He wants to print his document from SuSE machine to windows machine. Is it possible ?
If yes, how can I do that ?
I know Samba server but the problem is the printer is not on Samba server but on the windows machine.
Please tell me if you have a solution for my case.
Install new printer: 1) skip the printer detection 2) Change printers (the button below the lower box) 3) Add printer 4) Show more connections 5) Choose SMB printing 6) Use the lookup buttons to find your server and printer 7) that should be it -- --Jyry C:-( C:-/ C========8-O C8-/ C:-(
On Monday 06 January 2003 3:30 am, Prabu Subroto wrote:
Dear my Pals.....
I am confused now, my boss has 2 machines one SuSE Linux 8.1 and Windows 98. He wants to print his document from SuSE machine to windows machine. Is it possible ?
If yes, how can I do that ?
I know Samba server but the problem is the printer is not on Samba server but on the windows machine.
This might sound corny, but if you stop and think a moment, you'll realize that the windows machine IS a "samba server" -- it's all in the naming :) windows networking is (basically) a peer-server network [any given computer in the network CAN be a server; most or all ARE clients at the same time] The underlying protocol is dubbed "server message block", or SMB for short -- when it was brought to linux, a "play on words" was done to the initials to come up with "samba", so really the correct way to refer to this in an "OS independant way" would be to call any computer providing "services" [disk space or printer queues] an "SMB server", while any computer that utilizes these services is an "SMB client".
Please tell me if you have a solution for my case.
as noted elsewhere, configure your linux system to use an SMB-served printer rather than a "local" printer.
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Tom Emerson