Printing to Windows XP Printer

Mikkel L. Ellertson mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Fri Mar 9 03:47:48 UTC 2007


Tom Gederberg wrote:
> I am using two computers (one running Windows XP and one running Fedora
> Core 6) on a wireless network.  My printer is connected to the Windows
> machine.  Is there a way to print from the Linux machine to the printer
> on the Windows machine.
> 
> Thanks
> 
You can add a Windows printer in CUPS. I am not sure if you need the
SAMBA client software installed to make it work, but I suspect you
do. (I normally have it installed for other reasons...) The format
for the printer URL is smb://<host>/<printer>

Mikkel
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