[CS-FSLUG] Network printer sharing with Windows

[David M.]

On Saturday October 1 2005 10:24 pm, Nathan T. wrote:
> Hi everyone, we just got a laser printer on sale and we need to be
> able to get to it from all the computers at home. We have a network
> set up, but we need to get a Mandrake 9.1 box to share it over the
> network.
>
> I set the printer up in Mandrake using printerdrake, and told
> printerdrake that the printer should be shared on the network, but
> then it wasn't visible from the windows machines. I made shure the
> samba (smb) daemon was running and even went looking through the list
> of available Mandrake packages to see if I could find any solution but
> so far nothing.
>
> The printer works on Mandrake, but isn't visible across the network.
> Putting Linux on all the computers isn't an option since my sister
> refuses to use it, and some of my homework requires Windows specific
> software.
>
> PS. I have already searched TLDP, "printer sharing" didn't return any
> results.

Are you able to browse the other computers on the network? and are those other 
computers able to browse the host?

-- 
David M.