[CS-FSLUG] Network printer sharing with Windows

[David M.]

On Friday October 7 2005 12:56 am, Stephen J. McCracken wrote:
> 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.
>
> [snip]
>
> > 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.

And also a good point.
-- 
David M.