On campus I tried the last two command strings suggested. The output is posted below. I needed to break the second one because it stopped giving output after the first few lines
--- begin output [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ for i in `export LC_ALL=C; findsmb 2> /dev/null | egrep '^[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+' | tr -s " " | cut -f2 -d ' ' | uniq | sort`; do echo $i; echo ---------------; export LC_ALL=C; smbclient -N -L $i 2> /dev/null | grep Printer; echo; done COLUMBIA --------------- KSY --------------- UNDERARMOUR --------------- print$ Disk Printer Drivers Printer Printer Microsoft Office Document Image Writer unknown --------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ for i in `export LC_ALL=C; findsmb 2> /dev/null | cut -f 1 -d ' ' | egrep '^[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+' | uniq | sort`; do echo $i; echo ---------------; export LC_ALL=C; smbclient -N -L $i 2> /dev/null | grep Printer; echo; done 10.254.254.253 --------------- -- adding smb printer difficult on large networks https://launchpad.net/bugs/58403 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs