On Wed, 2001-10-03 at 03:30, Erlend Bjørnson Barkbu wrote: > I've got a Hp Laserjet 5 in my network, it is shared on a printserver to all > the windows-machines on the network by its WINS-name > (//server/printer-of-some-sort) . > > How can I use this printer? > > I've tried to use samba, but I cant get it right > > Does anyone have a suggestion?
I've had success with cups and the gimpprint filters over samba. Just be sure that your workgroup name is also in the URI for the printer as follows: smb://login:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/printserver/printername works great for me. --mike
