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Print from a Mac to a PC over a network using SAMBA
Authored by: Robert Lowes on Aug 03, '06 10:11:54AM

It may not be entirely clear from the instuctions given, but the username in the SMB string is the username of your OS X account, while the the computer/printer part refers to the PC's name on the network and the shared name of the printer.

For example, my G5 iMac is on a wireless network with my Dad's XP box. He has an old Epson Stylus Colour 600 hooked up to it via a USB to Parallel port adaptor, which I wanted to print from across the network.

In this case, the SMB string goes "smb://rob:password@mshome/fred/epson", where "Rob" is my Mac OSX username, ":password" is the password used to allow the Mac to see the PC across the network, "@mshome" is the workgroup name the PC and Mac are on, and "fred/epson" is the username of the Windows XP account and the printer.

I don't actually use a password to connect to the PC from the Mac, but left the ":password" part in the string, which seems to work perfectly. Please remember to remove quote marks when typing in your own string. :D



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Print from a Mac to a PC over a network using SAMBA
Authored by: bfr541 on Jul 24, '07 08:31:56PM
he SMB string goes "smb://rob:password@mshome/fred/epson", where "Rob" is my Mac OSX username, ":password" is the password used to allow the Mac to see the PC across the network, "@mshome" is the workgroup name the PC and Mac are on, and "fred/epson" is the username of the Windows XP account and the printer.
Pardon my ignorance. I am trying to print to a new Brother Laser hooked up to a PC (parallel port) running XP Pro (Zone Alarm), and I am working on a Macbook running 10.4.10. I don't use a password to log into my Mac, but have set up two separate user accounts on the PC, (though on the network, my pc has a name--do I use that in this string at all?). I can see the printer, but get a variety of error messages. Once in a while, it seems to start to print, but then often get a "printing page 1, 28% completed..." and then gives me another error message.

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