Richard Forth wrote:
Me neither, watching this thread eagerly for the answer....
I spun up a Mint Linux live CD (Mint is like Ubuntu with codecs -
http://www.linuxmint.com/ ) and I could browse to the file shares on an
XP machine. Good start.
Went to the "printers ... add a printer" dialog, found that Windows SMB
share was an option for connectivity, selected the XP shared printer
from a drop-down box, selected a Canon printer with a broadly similar
model number (!), left the username and password at default, opened
OpenOffice Writer, typed "Hello World", hit print and lo, it printed !
So at least one distro is happy with using windows shared printers.
It also has the handy option to put in a username and password for the
relevant service, which is handy if "Guest" access isn't enabled.
Phil
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