[NTLUG:Discuss] Printer sharing from XP to FC6?

[John K. Taber]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leroy Tennison [mailto:leroy_tennison at prodigy.net] 
> Sent: Monday, August 04, 2008 10:47 PM
> To: jktaber at charter.net
> Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Printer sharing from XP to FC6?
> 
> John K. Taber wrote:
> > I'm not sure how to answer this question. How do I find out?
> > 
> > 
> 
> On both machines, get to a command prompt.  On Windows, enter
> 
> ipconfig
> 
> and copy the results.
> 
> On Linux enter (may have to be root)
> 
> ifconfig
> 
> and copy the results.
> 
> Post both here.  I could try and explain how to tell but the 
> explanation
> would be long and possibly difficult to comprehend.  With the 
> output of
> the above two commands your question can be answered and the process
> hopefully explained more easily with your example.

Here are the results. JohnXP and JohnFC6 are the same machine, the first
Windows, the 2nd FC6. Following is SonjaXP. My desire is to have SonjaXP
able to print via JohnFC6.

I'm taking the liberty of cc'ing to the discussion group in case it
helps others.

JohnXP
ipconfig
Windows IP Configuration
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:
        Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :
        IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.100
        Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
        Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1

JohnFC6
ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:11:11:BA:64:D0  
          inet addr:192.168.1.100  Bcast:192.168.1.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::211:11ff:feba:64d0/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:146 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:167 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:52796 (51.5 KiB)  TX bytes:20540 (20.0 KiB)

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:2729 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:2729 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:5352388 (5.1 MiB)  TX bytes:5352388 (5.1 MiB)
SonjaXP 
ipconfig
Windows IP Configuration
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:
        Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :
        IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.101
        Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0        
        Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1

John