On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 01:09, bascule wrote: > 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
Bascule, Sound like the old joke about the guy looking for a quarter in the living room. He lost it in the bedroom, but the light is better in the living room so he's looking for it there. *grin* James > 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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