turgut kalfaoglu [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] said:

>Greetings; I installed Mandrake a few weeks ago on my laptop;
>and only have a few glitches that annoy me: Such as printer
>support. Our printers are handled by Netbios (they are on an
>OS/2 machine and a Win98 machine); and I dont know how to
>access them from Linux. Btw, the OS/2 machine also has LPD
>running..


The protocol is NetBIOS over TCP/IP (unless you are unfortunately running
NetBEUI).

Use Samba to print to the NBT-shared printers.
http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/SMB-HOWTO-9.html

Or use lpr to print to the lpd-shared printer.
http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/Printing-HOWTO-11.html#ss11.1


Richard


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