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On Sat, 7 Oct 2006 07:36:16 -0400 (EDT) Scott Ehrlich <scott at MIT.EDU> wrote: > I have a network consisting of several Redhat 9 machines and a Windows 2000 box > with a printer physically connected to the Win2K machine. > > The goal is to share the printer, with the Win2K box as the print server, and > permit the Redhat9 systems to print through the Win2K box. > > What are my options? At present, nothing new can be introduced to the > picture. There can be OS changes/tweaks, but no upgrades, and no new > electronics. Set the printer up as a Samba printer. First, you need to have Windows 2000 to enable printer sharing. Once you do that then from one of the Red Hat machines take a look at the Windows 2000 system using 'smbclient -L <host>'. The password may be empty. Domain=[<hostname>] OS=[Windows 5.1] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager] gaf at gaf:~> smbclient -L <hostname> Password: Sharename Type Comment --------- ---- ------- IPC$ IPC Remote IPC D$ Disk Default share print$ Disk Printer Drivers SharedDocs Disk C Disk ADMIN$ Disk Remote Admin C$ Disk Default share hppsc2200 Printer hp psc 2200 series Domain=[<hostname>] OS=[Windows 5.1] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager] Server Comment --------- ------- Workgroup Master --------- ------- -- Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.blu.org/pipermail/discuss/attachments/20061007/6d972ce0/attachment.sig>
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