[CUBE] printing from a pc to cube
J. Torrey
jtorrey484 at earthlink.net
Fri Jul 4 10:55:11 PDT 2003
www.macosxhints.com does have information that helped me set this up.
search for "enable appletalk file sharing with windows". i have the
tip in a pdf if anyone is interested (it cannot be posted to the list).
On Friday, July 4, 2003, at 08:38 AM, Richard Clark wrote:
> 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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