How to Add a Windows Printer to an FC9

Fedora Core 9 is a community-supported Linux-based operating system that is the basis for Red Hat's enterprise Linux product. Fedora supports printing to printers shared from a Windows system over the network after they're added to the local computer's list of printers. Fedora's graphical printing configuration tool doesn't provide an obvious way of adding Windows printers, but you can add them manually. After you add the Windows printer to your FC9 system, you can print from any application and select the Windows printer from the list of available printers.

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  Click the "System" menu on the panel at the top of the Fedora Core desktop, click the "Administration" menu and click the "Printing" shortcut.

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  Type your root password into the password box in the "Password for Root on Localhost?" dialog and click "OK."

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  Verify the "Show Printers Shared by Other Systems" check box is checked. Click it if it isn't.

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  Click the "Edit" menu and click "New Printer."

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  Click "Other" in the "Select Connection" list.

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  Type the printer's address into the "Enter Device URI" box in the format "smb://workgroup/server/sharename" or "smb://server/sharename," replacing "workgroup" with the name of the Windows workgroup the computer is on, "server" with the Windows computer's IP address or network name and "sharename" with the name of the printer share. If the printer's name contains spaces, replace each space with "%20."

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  Click "Forward."

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  Click the manufacturer of the printer in the list and click "Forward."

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  Click the printer's model name and number in the list and click "Forward."

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  Type a name for the printer into the "Printer Name" box.

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  Click "Apply."