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Mac Medic · 11-21-2003, 12:00 PM

No need for Samba for the windows machine, you are getting an authentication error is all. Try this.

Set up an account on the windows box called "printer" no password.

Print to:

smb://printer(being the account name you set up)@WORKGROUPNAME/SERVERNAME/PRINTERNAME

Windows will not authenticate an SMB request on a proteced account, at least in my experience, but a plain user account with no password seems to work.

Hope this helps

11-21-2003, 12:00 PM	#5
Mac Medic Member (11 bit) Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 1,729	No need for Samba for the windows machine, you are getting an authentication error is all. Try this. Set up an account on the windows box called "printer" no password. Print to: smb://printer(being the account name you set up)@WORKGROUPNAME/SERVERNAME/PRINTERNAME Windows will not authenticate an SMB request on a proteced account, at least in my experience, but a plain user account with no password seems to work. Hope this helps __________________ Better to use a Mac and be THOUGHT a fool, than to use Windows and REMOVE ALL DOUBT Last edited by Mac Medic; 11-21-2003 at 12:02 PM.