Ken - Thanks for your help. It seems, though, that I'm going to have to move the printer to the Linux box anyway and share it from there because at the Windows end, I found I could not share the printer! Back to square one. By the way, I do not have a Control Centre - Peripherals - Printer module, only digital camera, keyboard and mouse. Is that right? Anyway, the Control Centre -- System -- Printing Manager seems to have eveything I might need. Best wishes - Ken On Saturday 07 June 2003 12:26 pm, Ken Schneider wrote:

-----Original Message----- From: Kenneth Payne To: SuSe mailing list Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2003 10:19:25 +0100 Subject: [SLE] Networking printers with Samba

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I know you can share a printer attached to a Linux box with Windows machines on the same network by using Samba. But can a Linux box access a printer attached to a Windows machine?

If so, can anyone give me some general guidelines as to how to go about it?

I'm using SuSE 8.1

Thanks

- Ken

You can do this through the KDE Control Center-->> Peripherals--Printers

First make sure the printer on the M$ box is shared.

For the type of connection use SMB.

The rest should be self explainatory.

This is the setup I use here. The wife insists the the printer be connected to her PC because of some of the printer features.

Ken

Joe - Thanks for your help. But I'm going to scratch the idea anyway because I can't get the printer to share on the Windows machine. I'm going to put the printer on the Linux box and share from there. Thanks again - Ken On Saturday 07 June 2003 12:43 pm, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:

On 06/07/2003 05:19 PM, Kenneth Payne wrote:

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I know you can share a printer attached to a Linux box with Windows machines on the same network by using Samba. But can a Linux box access a printer attached to a Windows machine?

If so, can anyone give me some general guidelines as to how to go about it?

I have found the KDE Print Manager does an excellent job. You will need to install the samba client rpm, then just follow the steps. You will be connecting to an SMB printer. That is what I do (got a Canon printer

:-( ). HTH. BTW, I never bought 8.1, but it worked fine for both 8.0

and 8.2.

On Sat, 2003-06-07 at 08:55, The Wizard wrote:

On Saturday 07 June 2003 02:19, Kenneth Payne wrote:

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I know you can share a printer attached to a Linux box with Windows machines on the same network by using Samba. But can a Linux box access a printer attached to a Windows machine?

If so, can anyone give me some general guidelines as to how to go about it?

I'm using SuSE 8.1

Thanks

- Ken

Ken - Much depends on the version of Windows you're using. I have a desktop (with all my printers connected to it) running Windows2000. I activated the "Unix Printer Service" which lets CUPS access the Windows print queue as an "lpd://" printer. Works fine for me, under both 8.1 and 8.2.

Yes - after getting help from someone else here, I now can print from Linux (SuSE 8.2) to the HP 6122 connected to a Win98SE box. You have to be running Samba, and I assume you are using CUPS. I also assume that you have Samba set up correctly and you can share between Linux and Windows (and that the printer is set up for sharing in Windows of course). Here are my notes on How I Did It: Start a browser and go to: http://localhost:631/ then Click Administration and log in as root. Choose "Add printer" printer name: HP6122 location: 192.168.1.102 Name: HP6122 (this is the share name from Windows) URI - smb://Gandalf/HP6122 Choose mftr. - HP Choose driver - hpjis recommended (they actually had a driver for the 6122 in my case) print test page - !!! it worked!!! So I hope that helped. Cheers, Malke -- Elephant Boy Computers www.elephantboycomputers.com Don't Panic!