Re: sharing a printer / Open Suse / KDE / with XP computers

2007-07-21 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
On Sat 21 Jul 2007 15:47:27 NZST +1200, Reg wrote: I tried with the suse firewall off and still no go. Good, you have eliminated the firewall from the suspect list :) If to make it go I would have to open up a whole lot of ports and rules to make firewall ineffective then maybe I will flag

Re: sharing a printer / Open Suse / KDE / with XP computers

2007-07-20 Thread Reg
Steve Holdoway wrote: On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 13:26:47 +1200 (NZST) Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, July 20, 2007 1:19 pm, Nick Rout wrote: On Fri, July 20, 2007 12:27 pm, Reg wrote: I have just added a local printer to my Open Suse Computer via Yast and all was

Re: sharing a printer / Open Suse / KDE / with XP computers

2007-07-20 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
I have samba all set up and working, I can still view home dir etc from my XP machines and I can see the printer on the linux machine from XP but it says unable to connect (printer is turned on of course) SUSE runs a firewall by default which blocks incoming connections. Which ports are used

Re: sharing a printer / Open Suse / KDE / with XP computers

2007-07-20 Thread Reg
Volker Kuhlmann wrote: I have samba all set up and working, I can still view home dir etc from my XP machines and I can see the printer on the linux machine from XP but it says unable to connect (printer is turned on of course) SUSE runs a firewall by default which blocks incoming

sharing a printer / Open Suse / KDE / with XP computers

2007-07-19 Thread Reg
I have just added a local printer to my Open Suse Computer via Yast and all was straight forward, works fine locally. How do I go about sharing this printer on my XP based computers on my local network? Regards Reg

Re: sharing a printer / Open Suse / KDE / with XP computers

2007-07-19 Thread Steve Holdoway
samba will do that for you... On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 12:27:39 +1200 Reg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just added a local printer to my Open Suse Computer via Yast and all was straight forward, works fine locally. How do I go about sharing this printer on my XP based computers on my local

Re: sharing a printer / Open Suse / KDE / with XP computers

2007-07-19 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On 7/20/07, Reg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just added a local printer to my Open Suse Computer via Yast and all was straight forward, works fine locally. How do I go about sharing this printer on my XP based computers on my local network? install cups (if not already done) and samba

Re: sharing a printer / Open Suse / KDE / with XP computers

2007-07-19 Thread Roger Searle
Christopher Sawtell wrote: On 7/20/07, Reg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just added a local printer to my Open Suse Computer via Yast and all was straight forward, works fine locally. How do I go about sharing this printer on my XP based computers on my local network? install cups (if

Re: sharing a printer / Open Suse / KDE / with XP computers

2007-07-19 Thread Nick Rout
On Fri, July 20, 2007 12:27 pm, Reg wrote: I have just added a local printer to my Open Suse Computer via Yast and all was straight forward, works fine locally. How do I go about sharing this printer on my XP based computers on my local network? Regards Reg By looking in the wiki of

Re: sharing a printer / Open Suse / KDE / with XP computers

2007-07-19 Thread Nick Rout
On Fri, July 20, 2007 1:19 pm, Nick Rout wrote: On Fri, July 20, 2007 12:27 pm, Reg wrote: I have just added a local printer to my Open Suse Computer via Yast and all was straight forward, works fine locally. How do I go about sharing this printer on my XP based computers on my local

Re: sharing a printer / Open Suse / KDE / with XP computers

2007-07-19 Thread Robert Fisher
http://clug.net.nz/index.php/WinCupsNoSamba PS this is IMHO easier than samba :-) And IMHO there is another equally easy way. Assuming that the printer is set up in CUPS, on your Windows boxes simply add a printer with a new LPR port lpd://servername/printername (where servername could be

Re: sharing a printer / Open Suse / KDE / with XP computers

2007-07-19 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 13:26:47 +1200 (NZST) Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, July 20, 2007 1:19 pm, Nick Rout wrote: On Fri, July 20, 2007 12:27 pm, Reg wrote: I have just added a local printer to my Open Suse Computer via Yast and all was straight forward, works fine locally.

Re: sharing a printer / Open Suse / KDE / with XP computers

2007-07-19 Thread Robert Fisher
http://clug.net.nz/index.php/WinCupsNoSamba PS this is IMHO easier than samba :-) And IMHO there is another equally easy way. Assuming that the printer is set up in CUPS, on your Windows boxes simply add a printer with a new LPR port lpd://servername/printername (where servername

Re: sharing a printer / Open Suse / KDE / with XP computers

2007-07-19 Thread Robert Fisher
samba will do that for you... This looks like a fairly good howto using samba. http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/netsysm/article.php/3621876 HTH Rob

Re: sharing a printer / Open Suse / KDE / with XP computers

2007-07-19 Thread Reg
Roger Searle wrote: Christopher Sawtell wrote: On 7/20/07, Reg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just added a local printer to my Open Suse Computer via Yast and all was straight forward, works fine locally. How do I go about sharing this printer on my XP based computers on my local

Re: sharing a printer / Open Suse / KDE / with XP computers

2007-07-19 Thread Robert Fisher
On Friday 20 July 2007 3:16 pm, Reg wrote: I have sent Reg my ICQ and MSN addresses so he might chat with me about this Cups seems to be installed and so is Samba, and the smb.conf makes references to printer. Like I say it works fine locally. Do I have to do anything in CUPS to share the