Win->Mac Printer Sharing

Is it posible to use a shared printer contected directly to a Win box on the network using OS X? If so, how?

Yes, I believe you need to look into something called CUPS. What kind of printer is it and how is it hooked up?

It is an HP 540 Deskjet that is hooked up to the LPT1 port on a Windows Box.

I would look at http://www.cups.org/ for more info. I will keep my eye open for more info as well.

Worked like a charm. I didn't realize how much of the same software Mac OS X uses that I am use to in Linux. This is great!

So that CUPS worked for you? The printer I have isn't/wasn't supported so I never got it to work.

im actually trying to connect to a CUPS server on my other linux machine with no success. It was fairly easy to connect to the win2k3 print server in my office, but i cant get it to link with the linux printer in my office. Any ideas, maybe a how-to?

hokiethang said:

im actually trying to connect to a CUPS server on my other linux machine with no success. It was fairly easy to connect to the win2k3 print server in my office, but i cant get it to link with the linux printer in my office. Any ideas, maybe a how-to?

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Actually, the best place to ask questions about Linux is at linuxjunior.org. I had no problems with CUPS and using my printer under Red Hat Linux. It worked in the exact same manaer as it did under Mac OS X.

well im trying to connect my mac to the cups server. the linux machine can print to the printer fine, i just cant get the mac to print to it.