Re: Using printer on another OS (Oops !! a mistake)

[A Midhun Kumar <ae98016@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, A Midhun Kumar wrote:

Sorry for the mistake in what I posted. One neednot configure it as a
remote printer. One can use "smbclient" to connect to that window$ machine
and then issue the required commands. If one doesn't know the shared name,
he can use "$ smbclient -L //<window$ machine> " to connect to it and it
gives all the listed shared components there.



> On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Poorna Prasad wrote:
> 
> > How I can use a printer connected with Win95 or 98 system through Linux system?
> 
> It is very easily done using samba. All you have to do is to give sharing
> for the printer on the window$ machine and use the printer configuration
> here to set it as remote printer (and samba running). See samba
> documentation for more details. It is just very very simple.




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