share a windows printer with linux.

qwijibow · 01-03-2005, 01:24 PM

Ive been reading samba documentation, and all i can find is tutorials on how to share a Linux print servwer with windows.

it is possible to use samba and cups to print to a Windows print server ?
if so how ???

im running Gentoo on the AMD Athlon64.

otoomet · 01-03-2005, 03:20 PM

Sure.

Your windows printer should have address like

\\windowsmachine\printer

You may give this address directly to cups printer configuration. Eventually you need your windows login/password. On different distros there may be different ways for configuring the printer, but 'http://localhost:631' should always work.

Of course, samba and cups must be up (should be on most modern distros).

best,

Ott

qwijibow · 01-03-2005, 05:09 PM

Ahh got it working...
i used KDE to configure cups instead of cups directly though a web browser.

the problem, was that cups didnt prompt for a username, KDE did.
thanks anyways