RE: [Nolug] WinXP print sharing alternatives

You might be already past this point, so an alternative of a little program
below.

I had a moment of trouble with connecting from RH9 to a windows hosted
printer. Then I realized that I forgot the domain name from the login. for
example instead of using
user: pietu
passwd: xxxxx , I need to use
user: pietu@avatarlab <-- note, not FQDN, but works in my setup.
passwd xxxxx

If you don't have network domain, with XP use "user@hostname" as user.

I hope this helps. Unfortunately I can't get the configuration example
because the linux box I did this is at the moment put aside.

An alternative way of sharing the printer is a small print server you could
hook up directly to the network cable.

P

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nolug@joeykelly.net [mailto:owner-nolug@joeykelly.net]On
> Behalf Of Ron Johnson
> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 12:41 AM
> To: NOLUG ML
> Subject: Re: [Nolug] WinXP print sharing alternatives
>
>
> On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 20:08, Retrolin@aol.com wrote:
> > ok ok...I've tried and tried with this SAMBA stuff and with this
> > CUPS stuff. THe farthest I can get is to get my linux box to
> > connect to the printer shared on the windows XP machine, however,
> > if I go to print or print a test page, it loses the connection,
> > and i can't get it back unlesss I delete the queue and create a
> > new one...only to do the exact same thing (lose connection when
> > I go to actually use it) what I was wondering is if there are
> > any SIMPLE printer sharing software I can install on windows XP
> > that would make using it's printer much much easier.. something
> > like Novell perhaps exept a lot less computer overtaking and can
> > be running without excessive interferance(getting in the way)
> > whenever the computer is turned on.
>
> What version of SAMBA and CUPS are you using?
>
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