sharing a windows printer

[merlyn645]

after much flaunching around for several days, I was able to access a windows based printer on my network from this Ubuntu 10.4 laptop. What I first discovered was I had to install Samba and Cups (cups was already installed as it turned out). Having done that, I tried several iterations of discovering the HP printer attached to a Dell Latitude on my network. Nothing.

Then I read something, somewhere about using the IP address of the Latitude instead of the network name (Latitude). So I peeked into the router to find the IP address assigned to Latitude and VOILA! I plugged that into the box for location,along with the name of the printer and it did the rest. Actually it found the right drivers and did the rest.

I see a problem with that protocol, however. If I reset the router, which I have to do once a week or so, I fear that the IP assigned to Latitude will change. As it is, it has 192.168.2.2 but if I reset and bring up my Asus first, I imagine Latitude will end up with ~.2.3, in which case I have no idea what will happen.

Any ideas?

[MikeTbob]

You can force the Ubuntu machine to use one IP only.

[rcgreen]

There should be an option in your router's configuration
telling it to always assign the same address to your computer.

[merlyn645]

There should be an option in your router's configuration
telling it to always assign the same address to your computer.

Now that's worth a try.
Thanks.