Printing to Window XP Printer

[douglas at croydongroup.com.hk]

>
>  > I am unable to connect to WinXP printer.
>
> The key is to have the linux drivers on your system.
>
> Then I can't remember if I used the printer setup tool(I think I did it
> this way and just had to enter the IP of the windows machine and the
> shared printer name) or just browsed the network and right clicked on
> the shared windows printer to add it, and when it asked what kind of
> printer, I clicked on the Add button and pointed to the driver file.
>
> If its a common printer the drivers might already be there though.
> One catch, make sure on the windows machine that you open the security
> enough. I can't remember if you can specify a user/pass in the Ubuntu
> config.
>
> Alex

Hi, Alex

You may be lucky to add the printer. I have tried all means to do but fail.

The XP box diable firewall and guest allowed. I can't see the printer from Add
printer Wizard. I use the IP address as well. But the job is processing and not
going through.

Any suggestion? A bug in Ubuntu?

Douglas