Sharing printer with Windows 7 & Vista

[Old_Grey_Wolf]

I have cups and samba set up on an old laptop as a printer server. The printer is an Epson Stylus NX215. The laptop is running Xubuntu 12.04.

My Linux computers can print to it without any problems.

I can connect to the laptop and add the printer in both Windows 7 and Vista. When I get to the "Print Test Page", it doesn't print. Both versions of Windows think the file was sent to the server; however, when I look in the printer queue on the laptop, there is nothing there.

Any suggestions?

[Old_Grey_Wolf]

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[GeneralCody]

You should try to set it up with TCP/IP printing.

Try something like this:

http://andlinux.org/wiki/index.php5?...ndows_printers

[Old_Grey_Wolf]

That seems to describe printing from Linux to a printer shared by a Windows box. I have bookmarked your link if I find I have no other choice that going that way.

I am trying to print from Windows to a printer shared by a Linux box.



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[Old_Grey_Wolf]

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[Old_Grey_Wolf]

I have the printer shared from a Windows box at the moment.

That is not my preferred solution. I would prefer to share it from a Linux box.

This is my last bump to this thread.