Re: [SLUG] Network printing help

From: Jeff Davis (jdavis70@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Sun Sep 07 2003 - 13:47:50 EDT


On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 10:08, William Lindfors wrote:
> I was unable to get my local printer to work from my laptop (Linux) for some
> reason so I wanted to have my laptop print to my Windows Emachine printer. I
> have both my Laptop and Emachine connected thru a hub. I am able to use
> Samba to browse files on my emachine. Isn't there a way I can add a network
> printer on my laptop that is running Linux so it will print to the Emachine
> printer? Looking for specific instructions here. I've been using linux off
> and on for 2 years now.
>
>
        It has been a while since I have done that. I think that all you have
to do is share the printer on the emachine and use samba to print to it.
If you can browse the machine with samba, you should be able to print to
it.

        Jeff

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