On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 10:58:46PM +1300, Alan & Kerry Shrimpton wrote: | Hi, | | I know most people have their Linux box connected to the net. I have my | windows machine. | | I know most people probably have their printers connected to their Linux | machine. I have it connected to my windows machine. | 1. How the heck do I see my windows machine on my Linux machine?
What do you know about IP networking? What sort of (networking) hardware do you have set up? | 2. How do I get my Linux machine to print using my printer hardware | connected to my windows machine? | | No doubt I need to install some packages but what ones? samba , cupsys , cupsys-client Once you've installed them, point a web browser at "http://localhost:631" and point-n-click to add your printer. You will want to choose the 'smb' protocol with a URI like "smb://<win_machines_smb_name>/<printer_name>". Also be sure and enable "File and Print Sharing" in Windows' network config dialog and enable sharing of the printer in the printer's properties dialog. -D -- Consider what God has done: Who can straighten what He has made crooked? Ecclesiastes 7:13