[Wlug] router/printing problems

[Bill Smith]

On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 22:41:17 -0400, Bill Mills-Curran wrote:

>I have a home network with 2 routers.
>
>My 192.168.2.x network has a couple of windows boxes (some wireless)
>behind a linkSys router.  This network feeds to my 192.168.1.x network
>which connects to the internet through a second router.  My linux box
>(samba print server) is on the 192.168.1.x network and has a static
>IP.  I just moved to this setup when I got Verizon FIOS.  (Their
>wireless router has poor range.)
>
>Problem.  Since moving, I can't print to the samba-served printer from
>the windows boxes.  I have modified samba to accept connections from
>the 192.168.2.x machines.  Here's my samba log for the machine that
>tries to print.

I might well be mistaken, but don't Windows systems have to be on the
same network to interact with each other?

If that is indeed the case, then the Windows systems won't be able to
work with the Samba server very easily.
 
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