I can't offer specific advice, but a few comments: - In this day and age anything advising "registry tweaks" should be avoided. Yes its Windows, but its matured to the point where registry tweaks are rare - Focus on making the desktop expose itself in a way friendly to Windows. Far easier to maintain and tweak the Linux server and let the laptop be a plain jane Win7 machine - I have a Windows XP box printing to a printer on a Mac shared using IPP. Should work in Linux just as well. Choose a common print protocol SAMBA, IPP, etc. and expose that
Is it failing in any sort of specific way? Any logs? On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 5:49 PM, Joseph Brennan <[email protected]> wrote: > 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? > > _______________________________________________ > Fwlug mailing list > [email protected] > http://fortwaynelug.org/mailman/listinfo/fwlug_fortwaynelug.org > > This is a public list and all posts are archived publicly. Please keep this > in mind before posting. > > -- ----- Jonathan Bartels _______________________________________________ Fwlug mailing list [email protected] http://fortwaynelug.org/mailman/listinfo/fwlug_fortwaynelug.org This is a public list and all posts are archived publicly. Please keep this in mind before posting.
