How to tap into Windows Network for Printers

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#1

Hello,

I currently have a desktop set up at home, and from the windows side, I have been successful in terms of file sharing, and printers and etc quite well.

Now, I wish to have access the printers shared from Windows network from OpenSUSE 13.2 laptop while I am around at home. I dug up some documents online such as
https://tweakhound.com/2013/03/19/how-to-network-opensuse-12-3-and-windows/
http://www.tweakhound.com/linux/suse/112/samba.html

except both document seem to be on using Linux as the host. In my case, Windows is a host, OpenSUSE is a mirror, + OpenSUSE laptop.

The idea is that I wish to SSH into the mirror, and send print orders to Windows Desktop, from my OpenSUSE laptop from anywhere.

The exact question for this specific thread is this:
-How can I access printers shared in local “home group” network from OpenSUSE 13.2?

#2

Setting up an openSUSE machine to serve printers to Windows clients is documented here: <https://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/leap/reference/html/book.opensuse.reference/cha.samba.html>.
Setting up an openSUSE client to use printers on a Windows server, is described here: <https://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/leap/reference/html/book.opensuse.reference/cha.samba.html#sec.samba.client.inst>.
Further information is available from the Samba folks: <https://www.samba.org/>; <https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/>; <https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-Guide/>; <https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/using_samba/toc.html>.

#3

Okay,

I am 100% inexperienced in server management.

What I can tell you is that I have set up “home network” from the windows side in my home wifi network. I just wish to access it from my OpenSUSE laptops. Thank you for the references, but that is at least right now beyond me.

#4

Please slow down – the openSUSE documentation is meant to be useful for EVERYONE. Please help us by explaining where the openSUSE documentation is unclear for newcomers.
[HR][/HR]That the Samba documentation is possibly targeted more in the direction of professional System Administrators is a given fact. :embarrassed:

#5

The exact question for this specific thread is this:
-How can I access printers shared in local “home group” network from OpenSUSE 13.2?

From your openSUSE client(s), what is reported by ‘/usr/bin/smbclient -L <host>’?

Did you get as far as configuring the SMB printer(s) in CUPS first?
https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Printing_via_SMB_(Samba)_Share_or_Windows_Share