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adding windows printer in ubuntu 9.10

Asked by dankyle67

Hi,

been trying to acess a shared printer on a windows xp machine but printer doesn't show up when i browse under workgroup.
I can ping the ip address of printer and i can connect to a share on the c drive of windows xp machine but when i browse for pc under networks it says Unable to mount location. Failed to retrieve share list from server. I read that i do not need to install samba if i am just using my ubuntu machine as a client to access windows shares or printer shares. Thanks in advance.

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Wyatt Smith (wyatt-smith) said : 		#1

Technically you do not need into install samba. Samba is only required is you are hosting the shared folder. The package you need is smbfs.

If you want to use command-line utilities like smbclient, smbtar and/or smbspool you just need to install the smbclient package.

Hope this helps

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Wyatt Smith (wyatt-smith) said : 		#2

Ohhh........
Almost forgot there is a package which has components for both the server and client. It is samba-common

So
sudo apt-get install smbclient smbfs samba-common

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