I think this is more appropriate here rather than in "Networking" because of the presence/use of YAST, and all reading and references I have seen over the past couple of days with this problem have referred to SAMBA in a non-GUI environment.

I have a Compaq desktop running XP with a HP 3840 printer attached, connected to the Internet by a Linksys WRT54G router. Also connected to the router is a HP Laptop, via eth0. The laptop is dual boot, running XP and OpenSuSe 10.0

All I want to do is to be able to send print jobs from the laptop to the desktop printer. The configuration works when using XP on both machines, but won't work when using SuSe 10.

I can see the SuSe icon on the Desktop, and I have run through all the help I can find. I have set up Samba according to the file at www.suse-tutorials.co.uk, (it's for SuSe 9.3) and still no joy.

KjobViewer just sits there showing the job is processing but nothing prints. I'm really confused about what I should also be doing in YAST with all the options - NIS, NFS,NTD, Xinetd, Samba etc.

has anybody got any ideas?

thanks

Rogere

If the printer is connected to a Windows machine, you need to connect through the samba (smb) protocol. The Yast dialog should guide you through...

The printers address will probably look like

\\server\printer

'server' can be the IP number or the NetBIOS name of your XP machine, 'printer' is the name of the printer-share. Don't forget to share the printer on your Windows system.

Thanks. It helped a bit, but in the process I lost Internet connection. I'm going to do a clean install and try again. I hope that YAST will progress to a point where this can be configured simply

A re-installation is usually not required to solve such problems. I know that this is the way to solve problems in Windows, but in Linux it shouldn't be not required (neither in Windows, but it makes live much easier).

\\FQSN\printersharedname