My wife's win2k box has a usb printer (HP Officejet g55) mounted as shared. We are on a common wireless router. I'd like to print to her printer from my linux box, running Mandriva 2007. Once, about a year ago I succeeded in setting up smb4k and cups to allow me to print files to her box and printer, so I know it can be done, but since re-installing (twice) and upgrades to Mandriva 2006 and 2007, I haven't been able to print anything but .ps files.

So far...
Smb4k 'sees' my wife's win2k box and the printer (I see the correct group name and her hostname and even the printer name), but the printer is not mounted.
From the MCC (in Mandriva), when I try to add the printer, the auto-detection fails (I checked to be sure I have the IP/hostname correct).
Like I said, smb4k never shows the printer as mounted, and if I try to mount it manually an error occurs that says it can't find the disk size (!). But two days ago, when I was very tired, I did something and was able to mount it, which is the one time I was able to print a file.
I noticed on right-clicking the highlighted printer in smb4k that there is another mount option, but it is greyed out.

I've trying using the browser to go to smb://myhost/631, but that goes over the same ground as the Mandriva tool, with the same results.

Now there's a lot going on here, and the problem may be in smb4k or networking, or cups configuration (software) or understanding Mandriva, so if this is better placed in another forum, I understand that!

Thanks for any help.

You should be able to print to a windows box using smb://userassword@machine/printer on the cups configuration, works for me anyway.