[CS-FSLUG] Samba and XP - why a problem?

[Warren Sanders]

l4c wrote:
> Hilding wrote:
>   
>> Short explanation about my needs:
>> The small PC (in the basement) is connected with a router to the big one 
>> (on flat 1). The big one has got a printer USB local, and I would like 
>> to print the documents made on the small PC. Therefore I have been 
>> looking for Samba. It is only two PC involved with one router, and I am 
>> using the IP-numbers, 192.168.0.2 (the big one) and 192.168.0.3 (the 
>> small one).
>> The big one has got XPHomeEdition and Ubuntu/Fedora. The small one has 
>> got Fedora/Ubuntu (Ubuntu crashed this evening). With SSH I have 
>> connection between the two computers and even printing. Now I would like 
>> to get something printed without changing from XP to Fedora on the big 
>> PC.  And they tell me, that Samba will make this possible.
>>
>> Hilding Egestal
>>     
>
> AHA.  Well, although I don't have any direct experience setting that up, 
> but it does not sound as if you need samba set up at all.  You should be 
> able to set all that up through cups I would think.
>
>   

I agree.  You just need to setup cups service.  Not sure how you go 
about doing this with Gnome assuming you are using stock Ubuntu.  Even 
in KDE there are probably at least three ways of setting printing and 
print management.

Samba can do this too!  But probably is a bit of overkill.