Hello, On Mar 26 05:10 dwain wrote (shortened): > what i did was enter yast/hardware/printers. i clicked on set up network > printers then print via smb network server. i entered the workgroup > name and what i thought was the host server name. is that the name of > the windows machine where the printers are connected? then i added the > name of the network printer according to the share name on the host > machine. there is no user name or password to use the printer so i left > those fields blank.
See http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Printing_via_SMB_%28Samba%29_Share_or_Windows_Share and http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:CUPS_-_No_Printout_on_the_XP_Client By the way: If you use special characters (e.g. @%:/ or spaces) for your Windows hosts, workgroups, shares, user names, or passwords, it may not work because such characters may invalidate the CUPS DeviceURI, see "man smbspool" and for basics about CUPS see http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:CUPS_in_a_Nutshell Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany AG Nuernberg, HRB 16746, GF: Markus Rex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
