Chris Hocking
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Tuesday 4 December 2007, 12:57 PM
Suse Linux 10.3 I Beleive In You
I have so far managed to install it on a laptop which until today has been stationed at our Heathrow offices. Its looking very good I’m on the domain and able to map to files on our file server which is key, however when it comes to being able to see printers on the Microsoft network it’s a real struggle. In fact I can’t connect to a network printer only locally. I had started off using gnome but network functionality was poor so I have swapped it for kde which is much better but still no joy with gaining access to network printers.
Now I come to today. Although it is only likely that my company would look to use it on desktops that would never move I happen to have come to another office to day and want to see if I can join that domain. I think my biggest problem in these offices is there is no DHCP I may be wrong but I think this is why I cannot successfully join the domain. However I tried everything I could think of to join the domain (obviously I have added everything that needs to be in place manually) but no luck.
My two Questions from this therefore are:
1. Does anybody know how to print through a printer on a Microsoft network
2. Not too important but does having no DHCP present create any issues joining a windows domain from Linux.
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To answer your first question. If you have CUPS installed, you can open a browser to http://localhost:631 Click to add a new printer. Fill in the name, location, description. In the next screen click the dropdown list and choose Windows Printer via SAMBA. Put in the address for the printer:
smb://servername/printer
smb://username:password@workgroup/servername/printer
Choose the printer type and follow the rest of the way.
For question 2, not having DHCP means you will have to configure the IP address. Do that using YaST and as far as Linux is concerned you should be ok. You will want to install and configure SAMBA for best results. That is too much to explain in this small space though.
Good Luck,
John
Thanks very much for taking the time to reply john. I shall be giving this a go towards the end of the week, I'll let you know how it goes.
Thanks
Chris Hocking
