another samba question

Thanks to advice from this newsgroup, I can now access my linux (redhat
9.0 on intel) machine from my xp machine and share files. The next thing
to do is to be able to print from my xp using my linux printer. I am
trying to use Samba to do this. However, here is the problem.
According to information secured from the web, I am supposed to
select the "Printer" button from the Samba interface and proceed from
there. However, there are only 4 buttons on my Samba interface, Home,
View, Status and Password. Other than Password, none of these allows any
interaction. What am I missing here?
Thanks,
Dick Fell

richard noel fell wrote:
> Thanks to advice from this newsgroup, I can now access my linux (redhat
> 9.0 on intel) machine from my xp machine and share files. The next thing
> to do is to be able to print from my xp using my linux printer. I am
> trying to use Samba to do this. However, here is the problem.
> According to information secured from the web, I am supposed to
> select the "Printer" button from the Samba interface and proceed from
> there. However, there are only 4 buttons on my Samba interface, Home,
> View, Status and Password. Other than Password, none of these allows any
> interaction. What am I missing here?
> Thanks,
> Dick Fell
>

the default samba configuraion file will do this just fine without any
changes. Have you setup your Linux printer? If you have it should show
up in XP already I would assume.

For me I set up a RAW Queue and installed the actual driver on windows
box because it wouldnt do a network install from samba. then I pointed
the driver toward the real printer on the linux box.

clg

Carl wrote:

> richard noel fell wrote:
>
>> Thanks to advice from this newsgroup, I can now access my linux
>> (redhat 9.0 on intel) machine from my xp machine and share files. The
>> next thing to do is to be able to print from my xp using my linux
>> printer. I am trying to use Samba to do this. However, here is the
>> problem.
>> According to information secured from the web, I am supposed to
>> select the "Printer" button from the Samba interface and proceed from
>> there. However, there are only 4 buttons on my Samba interface, Home,
>> View, Status and Password. Other than Password, none of these allows
>> any interaction. What am I missing here?
>> Thanks,
>> Dick Fell
>>
>
> the default samba configuraion file will do this just fine without any
> changes. Have you setup your Linux printer? If you have it should
> show up in XP already I would assume.
>
> For me I set up a RAW Queue and installed the actual driver on windows
> box because it wouldnt do a network install from samba. then I
> pointed the driver toward the real printer on the linux box.
>
> clg
>
Thanks for the advice. It works.
Dick Fell