Can't print to Windows XP 64 printer

damian misc at daminator.com
Tue Dec 11 20:42:05 UTC 2007


Willis wrote:
> damian wrote:
>   
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I have a printer connected to an XP x64 machine.
>> My XP laptop can use it fine.
>> I can't get it to work with my Ubuntu machine though.
>> Maybe It's my samba set up? I can see my Ubuntu drives from my windows 
>> machines, but can't see My windows shares from the Ubuntu machines.
>> Or maybe it's because the machine the Printer is connected to is Windows 
>> XP 64?
>>
>> Any idea??
>>
>> Cheers
>> Damian
>>
>>   
>>     
> Did you install the printer to the Ubuntu?  I don't mean physically.  
> Without a driver I do not believe it will work at all.
>
>   
I took the steps that the video tutorials seem to tell you to take. It 
always seems to just work for them. That's what made me wonder if my XP 
box being 64bit was what was causing the problem.

Damian




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