[Samba] USB printer

[Craig White]

On Sat, 2004-03-20 at 05:44, Pusher wrote:
> Hello all!
> 
> I'm russian, so sorry for my english... :)
> I have LAN. LAN consist of one Winxp with shared printer (no password, common access), and one linux slackware 9.1. I need print from linux to shared printer of winxp.
> Printer of winxp connected by USB.
> I can't print!
> 
> I was do it on other machines, where printer was connected by LPT1, and no problem, printer was printing :)
> 
> May be is something tricks and traps with port printer usb?
> 
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No - the USB connection is managed by the computer that it is connected
to. In this case, the Windows XP computer.

You must share the printer from Windows XP

Setup Cups printing to use the
smb://NETBIOS_NAME_OF_WINDOWS_XP/PRINT_SHARE

and restart cups

Craig