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NT Printers & Samba

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by andy bettoni

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I've build up a server linux with the samba service in order to share directory and printers on this linux machines with clients of a NT domain. This connection in working fine. Now I would like to use 3 laser printers in use as lan resources on NT Server on the Linux Server, but I was not able to find out to view the Nt printers under Linux. Any suggestion?
Many thanks.
Andy

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by pahosler

You don't do anything to the /etc/samba/smb.conf file, leave it alone. You can make sure you can "see" the printers by using smbclient.

smbclient -L /your.NThost.here

if you are using Red Hat you can use printtool to configure your remote printer. This is really the easiest way, IMHO. I am not sure what the similar programs might be in the other distro's but I know they all have some sort of easy to use printer setup program.

You can also use smbclient directly to print on a remote printer.

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