Dream Up

This morning i had problem with my windows 7 beta. It was corrupted, it couldn’t get into login menu. It always restarted. So the only solution was linux. Lucky me, because i had linux mint installed in my fujitsu esprimo eventough i didn’t always use it

At the first time, i found it difficult with linux. I must deal with wireless setting, browser and messenger. I solved problem with wireless setting, i just had to set the dns. Once the wireless connected, mozilla browser worked very well. But i still had problem with pidgin, messenger for yahoo. I still couldn’t find the cause, so i decided to use web messenger, ebuddy.

In linux i must used open office instead of microsoft. But, i could handle it like a profesional . And the biggest problem was how connecting to windows printer. I asked google for this problem, and i found very easy way to connect it. Here we go..

1. make sure your printer in winXP is shared
Start > Control Panel > Printers and Faxes > right click on your printer > Sharing

2. There was 2 way which was mint way and the CUPS way, i chose the mint way
Menu > Administration > Printing > New > Windows Printer via Samba > Browse.
It should find it automatically after it does a network scan. If it can’t find anything you may have to fill in the dialog box, examples:
smb://WORKGROUP_NAME/MACHINE_NAME/WinPrinter
smb://MACHINE_NAME/WinPrinter
smb://192.168.0.100/WinPrinter

Note: Linux has a hard time with machine name resolution so you might be forced to use the IP Address instead. It should then connect and you’ll be asked about what make and model and such. You should define your printer type to search the driver and so on.

If you did it right, it will worked easily. good luck!!!