I currently have a windows 98 machine and a linux machine connected via a router to the internet. My windows 98 machine is connected to a printer. How can I network the linux machine to the windows machine in order to use the printer?

smbclient

you can use a *slightly* more friendly interface via cups
-- generally cups is very friendly, but you'll need a location for accessing samba (windows) printer, and i don't think cups will spoon-feed you all that.

want more help? post specific questions like:
my windows98 machine (192.168.1.3) is sharing a canon-lbp430 printer with a share name of 'canon'. I have it setup so anyone can print to it, how can i get my fedora core machine located on the same home network to use it?


hmm... i just read your question again: you'd use a switch/hub, a couple cat5 cables, and a couple NICs to do the networking

Thanks for those suggestions. I am new to linux , and new to networking as well. I have Redhat 8 on my linux machine. I just have the two machines now along with a HP2355 printer. Each machine has one ethernet card (which I use to connect to the router). I am not familiar with Samba. I am just learning about how to set up my WIndows 98 machine for networking. I sounds like your second suggestion is just to bypass the windows network?
Thanks again for any help.