On Thu, 2003-04-24 at 21:45, Dan Genn wrote: > The printer is directly connected to lpt1 on the W2K machine and shared as > HP5N. On the Redhat 9 machine I am just trying to setup a smb print que via > printconf to print to this Windows printer share. Samba on the Redhat box is > only used to talk with the other Win boxes...not to share anything - it's a > netbios client here. The applet (printconf or redhat-config-printer) tries > to autodiscover the host/share (which is flaky)- sometimes it only sees the > netbios name of the W2K host sometimes it lists both the host and the HP5N > share. The hourglass keeps spinning. Even if I set the share up explicitly > by setting all entries myself, (i.e. workgroup, host, share, id and passwd) > the applet keeps coming back up with the settings window looking for more > information. No probs printing through Windows hosts on my network, and > connecting to netbios directory shares on the W2K box via Redhat 9. Hope > that is clearer. You could try this.. On your W2K box, and the linux box, set all IP's/hostnames/aliases to their respective hosts files. Maybe that will help each other talk and such and find the printer. I got mine connected pretty easily, by just adding new printer to a samba share with the "Networked Windows (smb)" seletion for Queue type. -- Mike Chambers Madisonville, KY "Hand over the code, and no one gets hurt!"
