I have a problem, which seems pretty common from the number of similar posts, of printing from a Linux (Mandrake 9.1) box to a printer on a Windows XP Home machine. I have managed to establish the network and can see and share files, and can see the printer driver on the Windows box from Linux.

Problem may be that I have an HP3100 on the Windows box. This is not normally usable under Linux, or by different flavours of Windows on a network. But by a fiddle involving Ghostscript, I can use it if I boot the Linux machine in Windows ME. I feel I should be able to do the same from Linux.

It involves setting a postscript driver (I'm using Apple Laserwriter NTX) which Ghostscript redirects to the HP3100 via Ghostview and Redmon.

I cannot get a test page to print from Printerdrake in KDE, and am totally confused between Samba and Cups configurations

smb.conf follows (for what it is worth):

# Global Parameters

workgroup = MSHOME
netbiosname = Mylinux
encrypt passwords = yes
loglevel = 3
logfile = /home/mylinux/tmp/sambalog

[homes]
read only = no
browseable = no

[music]
path = /data/mp3
browseable = yes
write list = mylinux

[printers]
browseable = yes
path = /var/spool/lpd/lp
read only = yes
printable = yes
guest ok = yes

[everyone]
path = /data/everyone
read only = no
browseable = yes

[apps]
path = /data/apps
browseable = yes
valid users = @admins, root
write list = @admins, root