I have looked all over linuxquestions.org and I could not find my answer but if I asking something that has been answered I'm sorry please point me to the right post...

I have a laptop running RH 9.0 and a windows network one of the Windows XP machines has a HP LaserJet 6L that I would like to use to print with my Linux laptop.

I installed everything I need for Samba I believe and I think I'm using the CUPS printing queue. When I go add a printer I tell it it's a Networked Windows (SMB) and then it takes me to a screen that pulls up 2 of the 6 windows machines on the network and wouldn't you know that one of them was actually the one that I was looking for. But when I open it, it shows nothing shared. So I click on the specified button and tell it the exact names it’s looking for

workgroup = windows workgroup the Windows XP machine is on
Server = the Windows XP machine name
share = the printers share name on the XP Machine
user = the user account name on the XP machine
password = the user account password on the XP machine

It accepts all these settings but when I try to print nothing. I even paid atention to case when putting these values in.

The other thing I did was added the windows ip address and alias to the hosts file on the laptop so I would be sure that the server name would point it in the right direction.

Can someone help me solve this? thanks

Here is something else I thought I would mention

every few seconds my XP queue flashes a print job called remote downlevel document and the owner is the linux user so I know it's getting that far. but why is it stopping there? last time this happened to me it was between two windows machines and it was because the username and password were missmatched but here I know they're correct...