Printing to NT from CUPS (Mandrake)

[Jonathan Hutchins]

It looks like Mandrake's printer setup wizard is adding a FQDN to the Netbios 
name of the printers when it set up a printer serverd on a remote NT/SMB box. 
 
In /etc/cups/printers.conf, you should see  
 
Device URI  
smb://username:password@WORKGROUP/WINDOWSNETBIOSNAME/printersharename 
 
You can manually add the printer with  
 
lpadmin -p winprinter -v  
smb://username:password@WORKGROUP/WINDOWSNETBIOSNAME/printersharename  
-P /etc/cups/ppd/<ppd name> 
 
 
So only about six weeks to get that worked out, and that's pretty much the 
last bit.  Mandrake is now my full-time environment with the exception of my 
DeLorme and GPS software.   
 
I don't have my odball wireless card working under Linux yet, and there's 
another workstation that won't run KDE, but it's running Gnome ok. 
 
I still have to migrate the Exchange address book to LDAP.  Got some of it 
migrated, but lost a lot of entries. 
 
After that, I'll set up a real mailserver with good spam filtering, and the 
Exchange/NT box can go away for good; we'll be a 99% Linux network. 

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