[TriLUG] accessing a windows shared printer from linux

Tanner Lovelace lovelace at wayfarer.org
Mon Oct 27 17:12:42 EST 2003


Daniel Monjar wrote:
> I'm using Mandrake 9.2 and CUPS.  Anyone got a walk through on what I 
> need to do to print to a windows shared printer?  How about going the 
> other way?
> 

Point your browser to http://localhost:631/ and follow the directions
for adding a new printer.  I believe a windows printer will be something
like "smb://hostname/printername" but there will be examples there
for you to follow.

Cheers,
Tanner
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