On Friday 20 July 2007 3:16 pm, Reg wrote:

I have sent Reg my ICQ and MSN addresses so he might chat with me about this

> Cups seems to be installed and so is Samba, and the smb.conf makes
> references to printer. Like I say it works fine locally. Do I have to do
> anything in CUPS to share the printer or does it automatically get
> shared somewhere?
>
I recently built a new computer with Mepis 6.5 and set up the printer for it 
and set up samba file sharing.

I have done nothing about (deliberately) sharing the printer but I just 
browsed to my Mepis machine from Windows and I can see all of the shares 
including the printer.

I suspect Suse would be similar Reg so why don't you try to browse to it and 
see what you can see (If you are the same Reg who brought your machine to a 
CLUG meeting a few weeks ago to get help setting up shares then we can assume 
that that is still OK)

If you can see, as well as the shared folders, a shared printer then just try 
right clicking it then left clicking "connect". It will probably then say the 
driver is not available but you just select the appropriate Windows driver 
from there.
>
> I am confused.

Happens to most of us. Be patient. Follow advice and let us know how you get 
on.

Robert

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