Re: [gentoo-user] Printing from linux Laptop

Re: [gentoo-user] Printing from linux Laptop

[Mick]

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On Tuesday 18 July 2006 22:39, Timothy A. Holmes wrote:
> Hi folks:
>
> I am looking for a resource / howto to set up printing from my laptop
> (gentoo / fluxbox) to 2 printers that are being shared on my windows XP
> desktop as well as printers shared from my print server (windows 2003
> AD)
>
> If anyone has a good howto or knows a good wiki article please let me
> know

I am (almost) sure that I've read a post in this ML about setting WinXP as a 
server for Unix boxen and sharing the printer in the WinXP WORKGROUP, but 
can't find it anymore.  If I get some more time I will try to look into it 
again tomorrow.

Sorry I can't help directly.  :-(
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Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] Printing from linux Laptop

[Richard Fish]

On 7/18/06, Timothy A. Holmes <tholmes@mcaschool.net> wrote:
> Hi folks:
>
> I am looking for a resource / howto to set up printing from my laptop
> (gentoo / fluxbox) to 2 printers that are being shared on my windows XP
> desktop as well as printers shared from my print server (windows 2003
> AD)

Have you looked at the official documentation:

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/printing-howto.xml

-Richard
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[gentoo-user] Re: Printing from linux Laptop

[Mick]

Richard Fish wrote:

> On 7/18/06, Timothy A. Holmes <tholmes@mcaschool.net> wrote:
>> Hi folks:
>>
>> I am looking for a resource / howto to set up printing from my laptop
>> (gentoo / fluxbox) to 2 printers that are being shared on my windows XP
>> desktop as well as printers shared from my print server (windows 2003
>> AD)
> 
> Have you looked at the official documentation:
> 
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/printing-howto.xml

If you want to print through your WinXP machine *without* Samba then you
need to set it up to share printers with unix machines.  Go to:
 Control Panel
 Add/Remove Programs
 Add/Remove Windows Components
 Other Network File and Print Services
 Print Services for UNIX.

This service will need to be started manually (from admin tools) or added to
your start up list (Run: msconfig.exe).  You may well need to configure
your WinXP firewall for this and it would be a good idea to limit
connections to your Linux box LAN IP address.

I believe the above should do what you want, but I haven't tried it myself.
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Mick

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