[CUBE] printing from a pc to cube

Richard Clark mawgadog at tin.it
Fri Jul 4 07:38:57 PDT 2003


Thanks will try all of above and see what happens first gonna put in 
win 2000 then go from there.
On Friday, Jul 4, 2003, at 15:57 Europe/Rome, Michael Adams wrote:

> Windows 98 logs in using the current username by default, and there's 
> no way to change it. So if you're running as joe on win98, then it 
> will try to connect to you cube as joe. If the user joe doesn't exist 
> on your cube, then obviously it won't work. If joe does exist on the 
> cube, then go into Accounts in System Prefs and edit the user. Then 
> click on the box down the bottom that allows them to log on from 
> windows.
>
> Another point... I don't think win98 can use the printer sharing that 
> OS X offers (which is I believe the Internet Printing Protocol). I 
> believe this is a WinME, 2k and XP feature only. What I'd recommend is 
> downloading a program called Samba Sharing Package 
> (http://xamba.sourceforge.net/ssp/) which allows you to share printers 
> and other folders (not bound to users, ie a common shared folder) with 
> windows machines. There's a knack to getting it to work, but it can be 
> done: I've done it for my mini-network.
>
> Finally, http://www.macosxhints.com has many hints on this subject... 
> there's bound to be a solution in there somewhere!
>
> --Michael Adams.



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