My home network has a Windows computer with a shared printer. I've just installed Linux on my own machine. How can I connect to the shared Windows printer from my Linux installation?
Details:
- Assume my SSID is
wlan
and the Windows machine is calledwin-pc
and is sharing the printer asprinter
. - From my Windows installation, I can reach the shared printer using
\\win-pc\printer
, and that works. - From my Linux installation (PCLinuxOS), I can reach the other computer using
smb:/win-pc
and I can see some shared folders (such assmb:/win-pc/documents
) but I cannot see the printer. Based on this, I think Samba is installed and working correctly. - I've looked at several Google results but they are not specific enough.
- The KDE Print Add Printer Wizard provides three textfields to enter SSID, Server, and Printer. I assume that no
/
are required. Still, enteringwlan
andwin-pc
andprinter
does not work. - I will not change anything on the Windows pc. The solution must be on my Linux pc.
I must have missed some piece of configuration or something, but I don't know what my next step should be.