A Yuletide Apocalypse

Printing to Windows XP from OS X 10.3.9 Panther

Okay, so there are endless hints already out there about mac/windows printing. Unfortunately, none of them helped me solve my problem!

My main problem is still the fact that windows workgroups don’t show up in my Printer Setup Utility “windows printing” box, and neither do any printers…even though a co-worker prints without problems from her 10.3.3 machine, and I can print through her SHARED printer, but can’t just find it otherwise.

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So the CUPS interface:
http://localhost:631/
is a nice interface to the guts of the CUPS backend, which allows for a manual samba configuration, and is just plain cooler than panther’s printer setup utility. When it asks, login as “root”

You can manually enter the samba address, which I just did using the IP (found using ipconfig on the windows machine) like so:
[code]smb://guest@192.168.0.000/PrinterName[/code]
the driver selection is limited here, so you can modify it later in printer setup utility.

I have yet to try setting up the Unix print services on the XP end — mostly out of stubbornness (”principle”)… i shouldn’t HAVE to… but it is an alternate approach for those of you who are still stuck.
See Strikeman’s post here for instructions on how to set that up.

In the interest of completeness, here is a nicely written walkthrough complete with XP and OSX screen captures of 3 different ways to get panther to print to an XP machine
http://www.ifelix.co.uk/tech/3009.html