well i found out what i was doing wrong, turned out i had made a typo in my 
naming of the printer in linux! so no matter how carefully i scrutinised my 
entries in winxp it was never going to work! using samba and browsing for the 
printer in winxp i didn't notice the error, turns out to be the proverbial 
piece.... once that's sorted :)

bascule

On Friday 05 Sep 2003 8:00 am, bascule wrote:
> i've been struggling to get my winxp box to print via the printer attached
> to my mandrake box, i was under the impression that using cups and ipp only
> tcp/ip was necessary, however in the end i had to enable netbios over tcp
> in winxp to get the printer visible via samba on the mandrake box, is this
> how others do this, i googled for a combination of 'winxp linux printing'
> but all the results seem to point to samba and cups and as i said this only
> works by enabling netbios on the win box, am i missing something simple?
>
> bascule

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