Set Up Printer Sever/Sharing from OpenSUSE 11.4 to Windows

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Hi there,

I’ve recently bought a nice little HP LaserJet 1200, which was easy to configure and setup locally. However I wish to share the printer throughout the house with up to three/four Windoze machines.

I think it would be best to set this up perhaps using IPP rather than Samba, as I can’t seem to get any of the Windows machines in the house to see my SUSE Box, shame really, seeing as it’s superior ha ha :slight_smile:

Any help/or experience with sharing a printer successfully and easily over IPP or SMB would be greatly appreciated :slight_smile:

Yours,

Tom

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Hi,

I am not an expert, but I you absolutely need to setup samba to do this sharing with windoze machines.

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Hi Daax,

I’m fairly certain that I’ve seen others do this, in fact the option is listed under the add a printer dialog in Windoze.

However, SMB would be fine, but it appears that this would be even harder, as I have always had trouble getting my Linux machines talking to lowly Windows boxes of the house, perhaps I should concentrate on getting this going under samba, would probably be for the better.

Any help you could give with SMB networking as well as printing Daax?

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Sorry, it is out of my knowledge. never setup and never used samba and smb and I am using a network printer, so I don’t have those problems. :wink:

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Well, well. Would you like at that. The Windoze 7 machine downstairs is now printing to my Printer on my SUSE box, via IPP. I thought it could be done, and with much fiddling of the CUPS conf file and trial and error it works a treat.

Now I have to get my mother’s infernal Windows Vista machine to do the same.