Networking Ubuntu11.10, Mint12, and XP

[Ben Browning]

Wirelessly is irrelevant in this case. What you need is CUPS and
Samba. Once you get those up and get the printer shared, you should be
able to add it on the other machines... There are lots of good Samba
guides out there, google around and you'll find one.

~Ben

On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been googling for this but can't find the solution. I need to network a
> Mint box, Ubuntu computer, and an XP machine. I need my brothers Windows
> machine and the Mint box to be able to print (the printer is attached to the
> Ubuntu) without emailing the documents to be printed to myself. Further, I
> want to be able to control one machines pointer from another computer
> (remote desktop access). The best page I found for The best page I found for
> connecting Linux with XP is: http://www.howtodothings.com/computers/ ...
> hines.html
> Then it told me to enter: 'smb: //mywindowsmachinesname/ or smb:
> //mywindowsmachines LAN IP/' (I went to the windows machine ran ipconfig and
> figured out the LAN IP is 192.168.0.2) into konqueror. I figured it would be
> the same with firefox but it responded: '...(smb isn't associated with any
> program.' so I googled more adding the term 'ubuntu' but couldn't find
> anything useful. I guess you are supposed to enter something else! Please,
> what is it? How do you do it with nautilos (or whatever)?
> Also: the page told me to 'apt-get install cupsys cupsys-bsd cupsys-client
> foomatic-bin samba smbclient gs-esp a2ps' but apparently I don't have the
> source in my repository because mint responded with the not available but
> referred to by another package error.
>
> Almost forgot to mention that I need to do this wirelessly.
> --
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
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