Help: Printer sharing in Linux Red Hat 9.0

Hello:

I have a small home network with 3 Windows XP boxes and one Linux Red
Hat 9.0. Basically so I can learn Linux....

I have a HP deskjet 960c attached to one of the Windows XP boxes (it has
the Service Pack 2 installed) I have been trying to get Linux to see
the printer and install it. I have read:
http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/...tml#to_windows.

At the command prompt, I yield the following:

[root@localhost root]# smbclient -L ATHLON -N
added interface ip=192.168.0.2 bcast=192.168.0.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
Got a positive name query response from 192.168.0.3 ( 192.168.0.3 )
Domain=[MSHOME] OS=[Windows 5.1] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager]

Sharename Type Comment
--------- ---- -------
My Documents Disk
IPC$ IPC Remote IPC
print$ Disk Printer Drivers
SharedDocs Disk
data Disk
hpdeskje Printer hp deskjet 960c
backups Disk
Downloads Disk
mysql Disk
www Disk

Server Comment
--------- -------

Workgroup Master
--------- -------
[root@localhost root]#

Obviously it sees the "hpdeskje" printer as a share. However, it appear
invisible from the SAMBA web interface, from the CUPS web interface,
from KDE print manager. KDE print manager cannot even detect my network
under the scan feature.

I also tried LinNeighborhood. Each time I go to "Browse Network," the
program immediately exits.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Ross

On Thu, 02 Sep 2004 11:00:30 -0400, Ross Contino
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Hello:
>
>I have a small home network with 3 Windows XP boxes and one Linux Red
>Hat 9.0. Basically so I can learn Linux....
>
>I have a HP deskjet 960c attached to one of the Windows XP boxes (it has
>the Service Pack 2 installed) I have been trying to get Linux to see
>the printer and install it. I have read:
>http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/...tml#to_windows.
>
>At the command prompt, I yield the following:
>
>[root@localhost root]# smbclient -L ATHLON -N
>added interface ip=192.168.0.2 bcast=192.168.0.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
>Got a positive name query response from 192.168.0.3 ( 192.168.0.3 )
>Domain=[MSHOME] OS=[Windows 5.1] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager]
>
> Sharename Type Comment
> --------- ---- -------
> My Documents Disk
> IPC$ IPC Remote IPC
> print$ Disk Printer Drivers
> SharedDocs Disk
> data Disk
> hpdeskje Printer hp deskjet 960c
> backups Disk
> Downloads Disk
> mysql Disk
> www Disk
>
> Server Comment
> --------- -------
>
> Workgroup Master
> --------- -------
>[root@localhost root]#
>
>Obviously it sees the "hpdeskje" printer as a share. However, it appear
>invisible from the SAMBA web interface, from the CUPS web interface,
>from KDE print manager. KDE print manager cannot even detect my network
>under the scan feature.
>
>I also tried LinNeighborhood. Each time I go to "Browse Network," the
>program immediately exits.
>
>Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Ross

Ross;

You might want to take a look at SAMBA (SMB) which comes with most
distros. With that you should be able to pipe the output of your
printing to a samba command similar to this:

\\windows_machine\printername -N -P -c 'cat -'

We do this in production to send server program output dynamically to
the printers attached to remote Windows desktops.

see www.samba.org

Bob