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I have a DSL 4 port wired router with a desktop (suse 10) and a laptop (windows xp). My printer is connected to my desktop pc. I would like to be able to print from the laptop through my desktop. I thought if I had samba configured correctly, it would work but it doesn't. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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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Is there a firewall on the PC blocking samba connections?
I believe default samba config setups all printers to share, could be wrong.
Should not matter but have you setup users under samba and thier passwords?
samba printing bites. its too picky and a pita sometimes.
try using IPP. Its fully supported by linux and XP. Usually take me about 5 minutes to setup once cups can print locally from the "server" machine. Plus you can then open a browser on your XP machine use http://ipofserver:631 and adjust printer settings without going back to the desktop.
I tried to go to http://192.168.1.2:631 on my laptop (windows) and it says "page not found". I opened port 631 in my firewall but it didn't help. What else can I do?
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