Being part of a corporate network and authenticating against a Windows Active Directory server, you can access corporate resources, such as printers. KDE 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:
Start the KDE Control Center from the main menu.
Select
.Figure 8-9 Adding a Printer
Select
.Figure 8-10 Adding Printer Details
Enter the printer's name, a short description, and its location.
Enter a command line similar to the following example in
:smbclient //domain/printer -k -d 0 -c 'put %in' > /dev/null 2>&1
Replace domain and printer with the exact values matching your setup.
Check
and select to pipe all your print jobs to a postscript file.Leave the printer configuration with
.Leave the KDE Control Center with
.The printer is ready for use.
To print to the Windows network printer configured above, just select it from the list of available printers in KPrinter.