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Printing to a printer on a windows box

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I have an HP2600n laser printer on the USB port of my windows XP box. I want to print to it from my Ubuntu box. Both computers are on a LAN. How do I tell Ubuntu to find the printer on the windows USB port?

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Best Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) said : 		#1

You need to share the printer out on windows and then connect to the shared printer from Ubuntu. The following brief document tells you what to do:-

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WindowsXPPrinter

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JBLinux (jlordan) said : 		#2

Thank you, thank you! Works as advertised.