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My question is that i have a laptop with windows vista on it and my main box ubuntu 10.04. i know there is a way to set up the printer ...
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    Printing to another computer

    My question is that i have a laptop with windows vista on it and my main box ubuntu 10.04. i know there is a way to set up the printer on the vista laptop to print through my box. I remember part of it, something like

    ??????????:640/my printers/linux printer/hp?????

    please help if you can. also how do i set up the linux box to allow the vista machine see the printer?

    Thank you so much,

    Bower

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    I am not an expert, but if the printer is on your Linux
    computer, you can share it both as a "network" printer
    through cups and classic microsoft style through
    samba. Windows can be configured to use either one.

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