Re: printing over household wireless router network

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On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 01:01:57 -0300, Trevor Smith <trevor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On September 21, 2004 12:17 am, Steven Stern wrote:
> 
> > On WinXP, open ADD/REMOVE PROGRAMS from the control panel, click on the
> > Windows Componets on the left, and select Other Network File and Print
> > Services.  Select Print Services for UNIX.
> 
> yeah, as I figured, when I go to 'add printer' on her XP machine, it says
> browse or type in the address, either in the form \\server\printer or
> http://server/printer/.printer
> 
> Neither of the latter two are familiar to me, browse didn't find anything, and
> I suspect that for \\server\printer to work, I'd have to have some sort of
> peer-peer networking between the two machines (there is none). This leaves
> the http solution but I don't have a clue where I'd find a ".printer" file...
> 
AFIK
either you attach the printer to your LT & set her up as a samba user
(or) attach the printer to her machine, share the printer from win**
and access as smb  printer...
I have done this on my subnet & it  'just works'. Certainly there are
other ways to make this work <but>  worj\kes for me(tm),
bests
JS



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