share a printer from windows machine

mhm · 07-08-2007, 01:21 AM

Hi all,
I have RHEL4 on my machine and its connected to a lan, we have a shared printer in our department connceted to a windows machine with an ip address 100.12.102.102,

I tried to configure it by samab,
I assigned a name for the queue,
For the queue type: Networked Windows (SMB)
share: HAYTHAMQ
server: 100.12.102.102
user: administrator
password: ***

its a C.ITOH (CI-88) printer, so I tried both generic and C.ITOH drivers and nothing worked.

How to do it?

Regards
Mhm

Simon Bridge · 07-08-2007, 02:10 AM

http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/8955.html
http://www.poulpetersen.dk/linux/gbwinprn.html

mhm · 07-08-2007, 02:23 AM

Thanks for the quick reply, but it also didnt work
I read some article in net talked about using LPD protocl with enabling the "Print Services for Unix" in the windows machine, but also didnt work.

what is the prefered way to share a windows printer to a linux machine???

Regards
Mhm

Simon Bridge · 07-08-2007, 04:21 AM

The above links are it.
You have to say how it fails to work... there are many steps involved. Like: is there a working network connection between the print-server and linux? And so on.

Perhaps the printer is plugged into a windows vista machine?

Of course, the preferred way is to use a linux box as the print-server...