A. Lanza wrote:
On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 09:18, Mark Farmer wrote:
A. Lanza wrote:
Hi,
all printers in my network are connected to machines running Windows and i have no local printer connected to my Linux box.
I know that this can be accomplished by using Samba. I have Samba services running on my PC and i'm able to connect to some network file shares on Windows computers, but i cannot get to print on those servers.
I've tried to use the FC2 printer config. utility to connect to a network printer using SMB protocol. But with no success :(
I'm fairly sure in saying that only the samba client is required for this (and cups of course - if your using cups.)
If you use kde then as long as cups is running the kde printer config tool should be able to setup a printer.
Mark Farmer RHCT Linux Server Administrator
I think i have both samba client and cups running. How can i check? On the other hand, i'm using gnome desktop. I've tried to connect to a printer with the GUI utility with no luck :(
Any more help?
The samba client does not run as a service, it is called as & when required.
service cups status will tell you if cups is running or not, if not the do:
service cups start
If it's not running then it's probably not setup to start at boot, in this case type setup and use the system services tool to tell it to start at boot time.
I don't know about gnome tools, I never use them, but I would have thought it should work ok.
Mark Farmer RHCT Linux Server Administrator
