Configuring And Accessing A Windows Network Printer - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 10 SP1 - GNOME 23-05-2007 Manual

To access your Windows data using Nautilus, proceed as follows:
1 Open Nautilus and click Network Servers.
2 Click Windows Network.
3 Click the icon of the workgroup containing the computer you want to access.
4 Click the computer's icon (and authenticate, if prompted to do so), then navigate to the shared
To create folders in your Windows user folder using Nautilus, proceed as you would when creating a
Linux folder.
8.5 Configuring and Accessing a Windows
Network Printer
Being part of a corporate network and authenticating against a Windows Active Directory server,
you can access corporate resources, such as printers. GNOME allows you to configure printing from
your Linux client to a Windows network printer.
To configure a Windows network printer for use through your Linux workstation, proceed as
follows:
1 Start the GNOME Control Center from the main menu.
2 Select Hardware > Printers.
3 Select New Printer.
4 Select Network Printer, then select Windows Printer (SMB) from the drop-down menu.
5 Enter or select the Windows host, the printer, and the username and password required to
6 Select the driver that most closely matches the printer, then click Forward.
7 Click Apply.
To print to the Windows network printer configured above, select it from the list of available
printers.
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Exchange, you do not need to reauthenticate. Authentication against all these is handled
silently in the background once you provided your username and password on login.
folder on that computer.
Adding a printer requires root privileges, so you must enter the root password to continue.
access the Windows computer, then click Forward.
The printer is ready for use.