Last edited by netyire November 13th, 2008 at 03:17 PM. Select the driver for the printer (install it from disc) or choose a generic 'color printer' Choose 'Connect to this printer' and paste the stuff you copied just now Select 'Network Printer' and click next Start the 'Add new printer wizard' under printers & faxes in the control panel In firefox, you can right click -> copy link location Mouseover the big printer name and copy the text in the status bar, or if you're using IE right click -> properties and copy the link address. Enter 'LINUXIPADDRESS:631/printers' in Internet Explorer or compatible web browser Select 'Share Published Printers Connected To This System' under 'Server Settings' Click System->Adminstration->Printing (On the same menu as your 'start' bar or application launch bar) ![]() Enter '\\LINUXIPADDRESS\Shared' in 'Folder' box and select an unused drive letter Open My Computer, click tools->map network drive Finally enter 'sudo /etc/init.d/samba restart' in the same terminal In the same terminal enter 'sudo chmod 777 -R /home/USERNAME/FOLDER' or whatever path you set above Paste the following into the file, but edit the stuff in CAPS For the following step set WORKGROUPNAME to the workgroup defined under the windows computer (Right click My Computer and select properties under windows to access the workgroup name under the 'Computer Name' tab) In the same terminal type 'sudo gedit /etc/samba/smb.conf' Open a terminal & enter 'sudo apt-get install samba' without the brackets You've got a firewall which blocks everything save the ip addresses of the computers you want to share files with and a couple of other required services You want to share files & printers quickly and easily in a home environment ![]() For convention sake (rules for publishing a tutorial), author declares that no support is guaranteed. I'll attempt to provide the simplest method to do so in this guide There are plenty of tutorials on the ubuntu forums that cover samba shares or printer sharing but I'll suppose that you want the fastest, easiest, least troublesome method to share files and printers with windows
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