Re: Printing in Linux
On Wed, 2001-10-03 at 03:30, Erlend Bjørnson Barkbu wrote:
> I've got a Hp Laserjet 5 in my network, it is shared on a printserver to all the windows-machines on the network by its WINS-name (//server/printer-of-some-sort) .
>
> How can I use this printer?
>
> I've tried to use samba, but I cant get it right
>
> Does anyone have a suggestion?
I've had success with cups and the gimpprint filters over samba. Just
be sure that your workgroup name is also in the URI for the printer as
follows:
smb://login:password@domain/printserver/printername
works great for me.
--mike
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