On Sat, 2003-06-07 at 08:55, The Wizard wrote:
On Saturday 07 June 2003 02:19, Kenneth Payne wrote:
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!