[CS-FSLUG] Network printer sharing with Windows

[Stephen J. McCracken]

David M. wrote:
> 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.

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

While I do think it valuable to learn about the ins and outs of Samba,
have you thought that it would probably be much easier to get a network
print server to hook the printer up to?  Then every computer would be
able to connect without requiring any other computer to be turned on as
well.

Just a thought.

sjm