On Thursday 07 September 2006 20:33, William Case wrote: > > I tried Samba. That is what took up most of my day yesterday. I didn't > mention it in my post because I got it so screwed up. To set it up as > you suggest, what information do I need, keeping in mind that I do have > the home network working for Windows. Normally I would just go to my > manuals and experiment a bit. But I got to tell you, at the moment me > and Linux are rapidly losing household points. I have only a few more > times left that I can bounce her off her computer while I 'fix' the > printer. > I haven't tried this recently, but I have had Windows boxes printing to my local printer in the past. I never got it to work using the driver on the linux host. What I did was install the appropriate driver on the Windows box, set up my printer as an alternative printer, and uncomment the line in /etc/smb.conf that tells it to use the driver on the Windows box. One more thing that may be relevant - the users that needed to print to my printer were set up as users on the host box. Anne
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