Hp printer not printing when connected in network to Windows7 machine.

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Hi, I'm using a hp laserjet M1132 MFP at my workplace which is directly connected to a Fedora 15 machine. It is working fine with Fedora and other linux machines in network but it is not printing when print job given by Windows 7 machine which also is in network. I've installed samba on the fedora Pc for communicating with the Windows machine. Still its not working. Pls help.

Thanks,
Ragesh.

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Rags (rth342) said :
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I had to Set the network printer as the default printer and remove other unwanted ones from control panel of windows 7. Samba did the trick and my network printing is working fine with 2 Linux mint11, 1 Fedora 15 and 2 Windows 7 machines.

Thanx,
Ragesh.