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Hi. I just installed Debian and got the KDE running. Everything I want on it works. I just need to get the last thing working and I never have to use Windows on my laptop again, and that's PRINTING. Basically I have a printer connected to my desktop which is running Windows XP (for games and school's applications) and I want to use my laptop to be able to share that printer.
I have installed cups and samba, and a bunch of other things I was told to by various guides. Here's what happens next:
I've also tried the same thing thru h t t p://localhost:631/admin and was not successful. After I give the name and location of the printer, it asks me for the device (http, ipp, etc) but there is no choice for smb!
I finally checked in Kcontrols and tried to add a printer, but the choice for SMB type is greyed out and I cannot pick it!
Distribution: Distribution: RHEL 5 with Pieces of this and that.
Kernel 2.6.23.1, KDE 3.5.8 and KDE 4.0 beta, Plu
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Not sure what to try next. Only thing I have run into is some issues of file sharing from a Windows 2000 Pro machine. Can mount from command line fine but under SMB4K it caused errors to mount. No idea why. Never any issues with 95/98/me and xp. I think in 2000 it had to do with the password encrytion it used.
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