Is anyone surprised? Is there a workaround? I have converted a friend's old virus-laden computer into an Ubuntu 10.10 Desktop workstation. She has a new Windows 7 laptop and I told her that she could just sit on the couch and print documents to a printer attached to the Ubuntu machine and retrieve them later or have a family member do it (she is developing MS and having mobility issues). I told her that because it took me less than ten seconds apiece to set up remote printing to Ubuntu-attached printers for my netbook (running Ubuntu) and my Mom's laptop (running Mac OS X). This, on the other hand, has been a nightmare. I installed SAMBA, and when things wouldn't work I followed advice gleaned from Internet fora such as modifying the smb.conf file, changing some registry keys on the Windows machine, adding a password to the Windows account (she wasn't using one, since she has problems typing them because tremors associated with the MS). Nothing has worked. Most of the advice I have found online applies to Windows XP, and the Windows 7-specific advice doesn't seem to work. Does anyone have a successful Windows7 to Ubuntu network printing setup going, or is this just doomed to failure?
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