[wellylug] Connecting to a windows printer

Rob Giltrap rob at ubietygroup.com
Wed Oct 15 15:53:41 NZDT 2003


I am having troubles connecting to my wife's printer and could do with 
some advice

Here is my setup.

My Machine - RHL9 with XD2
My Wife's machine -  Windows 98 SE with a 'shared' Epson C41UX printer

We connect over a Linksys Cable router.

If I run up Win98SE on my machine I can connect to her printer no 
problems. In RHL9 with XD2 I use the printer administartion options to 
add a remote printer and go through the 4 steps and then it says "cannot 
add printer" which is not the most helpful error message one could recieve.

Has anyone else managed to access a printer attached to a remote windows 
machine?

I have tried the linux howto's but nothing gives advice on when a 
problem, occurs.

Thx, Rob.




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