Is samba running on the SuSE box yet? If not, do you know how to turn it on? Likely just run "/etc/rc.d/init.d/smb start"
Odds are pretty good everything will now "work" as the default smb.conf file probably has a "printers" section that allows printing to ALL of the local printers. You MAY need to create a linux account with the same name as the windows user. Once you've done that, you should run "smbpasswd -a USERNAME" where "USERNAME" once again is the same username that the windows user is logged in as Next, try network neighborhood under windows to see if you see the shared printers. If you run into further problems, mail me your ph # off list and I'll give you a call - jim On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 09:36:26 -0800 "" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm beginning to think working with Linux requires a bit of a masochistic > streak. > > I am running SuSE 9.1 Pro on a Pentium 4 3.2G with 2Gb RAM and yada yada > yd=ada. > > I installed VMWare Workstation 4.5.X > Than installed Windows 2K > > I have managed to tweak everything to work inside the guest os > > EXCEPT > > Printing!!!!! > > The printer is an HP 4050 connected via parallel port. > > Everything I have tried does not let Windows print and in several cases > stopped me from printing in Linux. I need to be able to print from both. > > I have done google searches, been on the VMWare site and SuSE with only one > possibility I can see. > > I need to use Samba to share out the printer via the VMWare pseudo network. > but I know next to nothing about Samba. > > Would someone walk me through how to do it? > > Thanks > > Dennis > > > _______________________________________________ > RLUG mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug > _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
