I had a similiar problem like that. What I did was enable the guest account on the windows machine and made the printer shared by everyone.
Hal Vaughan wrote: > I've seen a lot on printing from Win boxes to printers on Linux boxes. I've > found very little on printing from Linux to Windows printers. The HOWTO has > some information and I've found several other sources, but I still can't get > my Linux box to print to a Windows 2000 printer. > > I'm using Mandrake Linux 8.2, Samba 2.2.3a, CUPS (I'm not sure of the version, > I think it's ), which I'm managing through the KDE control panel. I have an > Epson C60 on a Windows 2000 box that I need to be able to access from Linux. > I'm doing this on my home office lan, but I need to do the exact same thing > (with a different printer) on a friend's lan. > > I used the CUPs control panel and told it to scan the network. It found the > Win2k box that's the host for the printer, but not the printer. I tried > typing in the info manually, but nothing prints. I used the CUPS web admin > tool and found I kept getting the error message: > > "Unable to connect to SAMBA host, will retry again in 60 seconds....'Success" > > That is the only message I get. > > I'm testing everything on my own LAN, since I figure once I get it to work on > my LAN, it'll work okay on my friend's. > > I know I'm asking for free help, but I need to get my friend's computer > printing to his Win2k box asap, so any help I can get on this soon is greatly > appreciated. > > Thanks! > > Hal > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- Joseph Loo [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba