Windows Wireless Printing From A Linux Laptop
I have an older Dell Inspiron 5100 notebook which I recently “fixed” by installing Linux Ubuntu 7.04 on. This laptop is primarily used by my wife. Our printer (Epson Stylus C86) is connected to the main desktop PC in the office. In order to share this printer wirelessly to the laptop a few steps had to be taken:
1: Click “Start”, “Printers and Faxes” and then right-click the printer you want share and choose “sharing”.
2: Click the “Share This Printer” radio button.
3: Now you need to move to the Linux PC and find the driver for your printer. You can try the web site for the printer manufacturer, but in most cases, they won’t have a Linux driver so you need to move to the open-source community. There are countless driver web sites out there. Here are 2 good ones:
4: On the Linux PC, choose “System”, “Administration” and “Printing”.
5: Choose “Windows Printer via SAMBA”.
6: Then browse your network for the printer (unless you changed it, your default network will be MSHOME - double click that and follow the trail to the printer)
This should be all you need to print wirelessly from your Linux box to a printer hooked to a Windows PC on your network!
May 31st, 2008 at 10:53 pm
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