Re: printing to a network printer

["A.J. Bonnema" <abonnema xs4all nl>]

Don wrote:
> I did a clean install of FC1 and need to run it on an otherwise all
> MSWindows network....
<snip>
> So, I thought I would try defining the printer as a "Networked Windows
> (SMB) Printer" (That's how most people in our office use it, I just like
> to be different :-) The list of hosts on the network was displayed, but
> I could not see any of the "shares" in order to see the printer I wanted
> to select.

Is samba installed on your FC1 machine and the printer is connected to 
you FC1? If so, either your firewall is block access to samba or your 
windows user is not allowed access to your Samba share. You might also 
want to check whether the password is encrypted or not.

> At no point did I have to log on to the network, which sort of surprised
> me... maube that's why I can see the machines, but nothing ON those
> machines is visible.

You only have to log on if you use the samba server as a primary domain 
controller. I'm that experience with these things, but I think you have 
to set samba up that way. You would want the samba server to be a PDC 
if you want to be execute logon scripts and have server-connection every 
time you logon.

hope this helps.

Guus.
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