using network printer?

zybreak · 02-15-2003, 01:42 PM

Hi!

I have 2 computors at home (my moms and my own) we have a small network and my mom has a printer (wich she generously´v shared (she runs windowsXP) while i recently installed slackware 8.1 now i thought it could be nite using her printer directly over the network (instead of the floppy marathon method) i installed samba but need some advice on how to configure it since ive never used samba before.

best regards
Robert Knutsson

RolledOat · 02-15-2003, 03:17 PM

You don't need sambadirectly to print to a windows machine. When you add a printer using Slack's method (probably cups) you will install a remote printer and it will ask for the samba share info during install. Allow the printer to be shared on your XP machine and you should be fine.

I went to their site, and printing howto referred me to this page, so I guess you get to choose which one you want. CUPS and LPR do the samba remote printer (I think they actually just call it a windows printer in the menu)

http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/Printing-HOWTO/

RO