[Wiltshire] Probable noob question

[John Larkworthy]

Hi,

If you want to keep the printer on the Win2k machine it is being shared using SMB. This covers a host of protocols including finding other machines in the network. The machine discovery protocols work when the router is providing DHCP addresses but not recording the host name in a DNS data base.

You should be able to see the win2k machine in the MSHOME workgroup (kinda like a domain in DNS talk).

If you have installed SAMBA client services on your Linux system you should be able to browse the Windows network at the command line with: 
'smbclient -L <win2k ip address> -N'
These options are -L list services and host known by this node, -N don't ask for a password.

Once you have established that the win2k machine is properly publishing the availability of the printer you should be able to use the printer setup of you distribution to create a printer queue to 'SMB://win2khost/printer' and set the correct driver to render the text into something the printer understands. 

Ubuntu does offer a nice GUI interface for this as well - something like browse network.

I can't be more specific about which tools to use as I don't know the distribution you are using. 

John.


----- Original Message ----
From: Andy Watts <g7mjv at btinternet.com>
To: wiltshire at mailman.lug.org.uk
Sent: Tuesday, 11 March, 2008 1:20:51 PM
Subject: Re: [Wiltshire] Probable noob question

Simon Fryer wrote:
> G'Day,
>
> On 11/03/2008, Andy Watts <g7mjv at btinternet.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> l'm trying to get this machine to talk to my wife's win 2k machine. l've
>> enabled printer sharing on her machine and we're connected to the net
>> via the same hard wired router...
>>
>> Could someone point me in the right direction please
>>     
>
> A couple of questions.
>
> 1) What are you trying to achieve by having both computers talk to each other?
> 2) The first step in diagnosing the problem, can the two computers
> ping each other? I don't know your level of experience with Linux so
> if you need help with ping, please let us know.
>
> Good luck.
>
> Simon
>
>   
Hi

All l really want to do is to be able to print documents. l've enabled 
print sharing on the windows machine and can see MSHOME when trying to 
add a printer..

Sadly that's as far as it goes

Andy

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