access printer on linux host from winxp guest (VMWARE 4.5.2)

[Paul Howarth]

On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 14:51 +0800, John Summerfied wrote:
> Yuandan Zhang wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I set up and vmware 4.5.2 on FC3 host, and a winxp vm guest. I use samba 
> > service to share files and printers with the host using eth0 and vmnet1 
> > interffaces.
> > The host printer is browsable, after setup on the winxp guest PC,  the 
> > printer is not accessable, showing' access denied, not connected'
> > 
> > any idea? Thanks
> 
> I'd not use Samba to share my Linux printers with XP: W2000 and 
> successors can talk direct to CUPS. Samba's adding a layer of unneeded 
> complexity.

However, samba is capable of providing Windows clients with the driver
they need for the printer (just like a Windows print server could),
whereas cups cannot do this.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>