polemicz Posted January 5, 2003 Report Share Posted January 5, 2003 I done messed up my nicely running 9 system and decided to reinstall 9. When that happened I could not set up my previously working remote printer (on a winXP system). Samba seems okay as I can print via smbclient and from my Win box I can see my Linux box. Curiously when I use Mandrake Control Center and go to mount points I shows all my systems except the Win XP box! But as I said I can contact it via smbclient -L alien(name of xp system). Then, when I try to add a printer via Control Center it says it can't find the printer. I am using the Cups and Samba out of the box, updating them does not help. I've had problems with Cups before on this network, but I have never not been able to have printerdrake see the printer or Control Center mount points to find the system. Thanks in advance for whatever help anyone can give. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polemicz Posted January 5, 2003 Author Report Share Posted January 5, 2003 I have no idea how or why, but after shutting down the winXP system and the Linux system, then restarting win and then Linux MCC sees my win shares and low and behold I can print. Still no idea why because yesterday I went through the same procedure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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