Sharing Printer

[Otto Haliburton]

As a emergency method until someone helps you, it is a laptop so just
connect the printer directly to the laptop and  do your printing, save you
time of having to figure out how to get it working. Personally I have no
problem printing to a printer on linux from xp, but have never been able to
print to a printer on xp from linux, but then I don't spend anytime trying
to figure it out.  Like I said do the quick fix and solve the other when you
have a lot of spare time

> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-install-list-
> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of brad.mugleston at comcast.net
> Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2006 8:39 PM
> To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> Subject: Re: Sharing Printer
> 
> On Sun, 5 Mar 2006 karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, March 5, 2006 4:59 pm, brad.mugleston at comcast.net said:
> > > I've got SAMBA set up on my Linux computer and my son is over and
> > > he needs to connet his XP notebook to the network to print on my
> > > printer.
> > >
> > > XP is all messed up, it's nothing like anything I've played with
> > > before and I can't seem to get it to even find my printer or any
> > > of my shared drives.  I was able to figure out how to set up a
> > > workgroup on his computer that matched the one on my Linux
> > > machine (same as the other windows computers use).
> > >
> > > He is getting on the wireless network in the house and that part
> > > works OK.
> > >
> > > Anyway, how does an XP connect to my Linux drives and printer.
> >
> > I think you have to setup the login name he uses on XP as a user on the
> > Linux Samba server. Either that or the name of the XP Computer. You've
> got a
> > good start with the workgroup name, but in my experience it's not
> necessary
> > if you set the other part up. I apologize for not knowing whether it's
> the
> > PC name or the login name. To see the syntax, however, type addsmbuser
> at #
> > and see what it says.
> >
> > HTH
> >
> > Karl
> >
> Karl,
> 
> Thanks for the help but I can't figure it out - yet.  The command
> addsmbuser didn't work but I found smbadduser which doesn't like
> anything I put in.  The computer name is DFOPH071 (assigned from
> the install I guess) but smbadduser DFOPH071 gives and error
> looking for a different format.
> 
> He doesn't have to login onto his computer, it just boots and he
> is there.  I'll try to do some more web searches - I had to
> borrow his computer to run my tax software and now I can't
> print it out.  8^(
> 
> Brad
> 
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