On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 12:33 -0400, Claude Jones wrote: > This whole exercise was brought on by my wish to share my HP laser > printer on my Fedora box with the Windows machines on the network. Last time I did that, I did it this way: Set up the Linux box as a CUPS server in the usual way. Other Linux boxes printed to it in the way that CUPS manages by itself. Configure the Windows box to use a printer over HTTP. This doesn't involve Samba, at all. Whatever address your printer is at, when you go through the CUPS web configuration page. e.g. http://printbox.lan:631/laserjet That's the address that you set into the Windows box as the location for the network printer. Some diddling around was required at both ends to either have the Windows box send pre-rendered graphics, using its own printer driver for that model printer, and having Linux accept pre-rendered data to the printer (a raw queue). Or to try it the other way: Have Windows send PostScript data to the CUPS server, and have CUPS speak the printer's own language. But, all this is by the by until you fix up your other networking issues. All the computers have to be able to reach each other, before you bother with trying to set up clients and servers between them. -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
