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
+ .Select
+ .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.