Ot, getting win xp working with a samba printer

[Gregory Nowak]

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Hi all.

First, sorry for the somewhat off-topic post. The subject line may not
be entirely accurate, but it describes the basics of what I need to
do. I have a printer connected to a gnu/linux box, which I can print
to from gnu/linux just fine, and which is also configured in samba, allowing me
to print to it from other machines. I know my samba setup is correct
as well, since I was able to print to this printer just fine from
windows 98 for a couple of years now. However, I cannot print to this
printer from a windows xp system. Specifically, whereas I was able to
select the printer driver under win98 from the manufacturers and
models dialog box, I no longer have access to this box when
installing the printer from winxp. Also, since I have a disk for this
driver, when I browse to the location containing the inf file and the
driver, and activate the ok button, windows says: "Windows cannot
locate a suitable printer driver. Contact your administrator for help
locating and installing a suitable driver."

If anybody might have a solution to this problem, or would like more
details, you might want to write to me privately if you consider this
to be a thread not meant for this list. Thanks in advance.

Greg


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