Printing on a printer hooked up to a win2k box

[dave]

The network is a simple windows workgroup (no domain controller). Is there an easy way to setup my box to do this? Can it be done?

[tvon]

You need to setup a Samba client to have access to the printer. Check linuxdocs.org for a decent Samba HOWTO (or just google for it).

HTH,
-T

[zerogeny]

i tried to do this.
i failed to achieve victory.
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[zerogeny]

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if you managed to get it going
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[isaachanson]

First, make sure you have Samba and Cups installed.
Then, make a link to smbspool:
ln -s /usr/bin/smbspool /usr/lib/cups/backends/smb
Next, start the cups daemon:
/etc/init.d/cupsd start
Then, you can add the printer with the cups web interface (localhost:631)
Look under administration, add printer
My device URI looks like this:
smb://10.100.9.10/PShare
That's it - remember to make cups initialize at boot with rc-update

[rizzo]

How can I specify the username/password to connect to the NT domain that my printer server is on? I saw some reference to specifying it on the URI, like this:

[rizzo]

Meh I found out that my network admin set it up so I can have CUPS use the HP JetDirect, so no samba needed for me.

Cheers.

[dnaquin]

As per CUPS help file, just use