You must use samba to "broadcast" the printer. That way, windows can see it.<br>The entry will look like<br><br>[samsung_printer]<br> comment = On the Linux box<br> path = /var/spool/samba<br> printable = Yes
<br> printer name = samsung_printer<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/8/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Kevin Krammer</b> <<a href="mailto:kevin.krammer@gmx.at">kevin.krammer@gmx.at</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Thursday 08 March 2007 11:09, John wrote:<br>> Hi<br>> I've read the kde documentation and a number of other cups things on
<br>> setting up printers but I'm still hopelessly lost.<br>> I have a printer running on this machine and I want to enable my son's<br>> windoze laptop to print to it over the network. His school work has to be
<br>> done under windoze unfortunately. (Wife's too !!!!!!!!)<br>> The best way of doing this would seem to be to establish a named raw queue<br>> to the printer in addition to the one it already has. The printer is a
<br>> samsung clp500 laser so the driver isn't open source but is well supported<br>> under Linux.<br>> Can KDE control module do this and if so how do I do it. Alternatively, if<br>> anyone anywhere knows just how could I do this using cups? I'm not keen on
<br>> the samba root.<br><br>The KDE Control Center module is, as far as I know, only the workstation<br>side's setup for CUPS.<br><br>However, CUPS usually has a web interface reachable on port 631, e.g.<br><a href="http://localhost:631/">
http://localhost:631/</a> in any browser should get you there.<br><br>Cheers,<br>Kevin<br>--<br>Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer<br>KDE user support, developer mentoring<br><br>___________________________________________________
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