sweet! On 29/09/2007, Phil Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Peterboro mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro >
-- ***** Richard Forth "I used to be indecisive, but now, I''m not so sure!" *****
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