I need PC laptop to use printer plugged in to Mac

The PC is using the same wireless router as the Mac. Do I create a network on the PC (which runs Vista and has Bonjour) or on the Mac – and how?

Well, something is wrong here. You say you have Bonjour for Windows installed, but you can't find the printer setup wizard. Either it's there, in which case you should use it, or it's not there, in which case you have a faulty installation and should reinstall.
As for sharing via SMB, I don't know any more than what's in that technical bulletin. If it doesn't work, you'll have to get advice from someone who knows more than I do about Windows, which is nothing.

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Hi sonewald1,
hope you are doing well and sorry to learn that you are having this issue.
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Click Next. Continue according to the instructions on the screen [source: Microsoft].
Hope it helps;
RobertoR
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Hello
please can someone assist me with setting up a printer.
I am running arch and xfce desktop.
I have an Epson Stylus Photo R800 USB printer connected to a wireless Belkin all-in-one Print Server.
I do not know how to connect to this printer.
I am not conversant in CUPS or network printing and would very much like to use the printer.
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system default destination: Epson
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/usr/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster failed
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bash-3.2# cat /etc/cups/printers.conf
# Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.3.8
# Written by cupsd on 2008-07-26 22:34
<DefaultPrinter Epson>
AuthInfoRequired username,password
Info Epson
DeviceURI socket://192.168.0.100:9100
State Idle
StateTime 1217108079
Accepting Yes
Shared Yes
JobSheets none none
QuotaPeriod 0
PageLimit 0
KLimit 0
OpPolicy default
ErrorPolicy stop-printer
</Printer>
any ideas good folk?
Last edited by keratos (2008-07-26 22:07:45)

EDIT:
SOLVED!
the problem was that gutenprint needed to be installed.
I looked at the rastertops file in /usr/lib/cups/filter and it was very small, handfull of lines, but refered to gutenprint (whatever that is).
"pacman -Q gutenprint" revealed it was not installed.
All is fine now.
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