Printing to a Windows print server with Samba
John Thompson
JohnThompson at new.rr.com
Fri Jul 23 13:59:21 UTC 2004
A. Lanza wrote:
> Hi,
>
> all printers in my network are connected to machines running Windows and
> i have no local printer connected to my Linux box.
>
> I know that this can be accomplished by using Samba. I have Samba
> services running on my PC and i'm able to connect to some network file
> shares on Windows computers, but i cannot get to print on those servers.
>
> I've tried to use the FC2 printer config. utility to connect to a
> network printer using SMB protocol. But with no success :(
>
> Can anyone give some advice?
If you can't get smb printing to work, you can enable "Unix print
service for Windows" on the Win machine(s) and they will act as a
regular *nix lpr print servers.
--
-John (john at os2.dhs.org)
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