[wellylug] Connecting to a windows printer

[Brenda Wallace]

check every setting over and over. one typo will do it.

i had a similar problem in suse, and found it was my own fault. the
subnet mask was set too narrow to allow me to connect to the printer. 

i bet ya it's something simple :-)

On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 04:53, Rob Giltrap wrote:
> 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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Brenda Wallace <brenda at wallace.net.nz>