[opensuse] adding network printer problems

i'm not sure if i am doing this correctly. earlier last night when i
looked at samba shares it was blank. today i can see the two windows
machines and i can access the computer where the shared printers are and
they are not there.

what i did was enter yast/hardware/printers. i clicked on set up network
printers then print via smb network server. i entered the workgroup
name and what i thought was the host server name. is that the name of
the windows machine where the printers are connected? then i added the
name of the network printer according to the share name on the host
machine. there is no user name or password to use the printer so i left
those fields blank.

when i clicked on the test button, i received the error message: your
network access is not properly configured or the print server is unknown
or unavailable. check the hostname of the print server or contact your
network administrator.

what am i missing? what else do i need to set for proper network access?

dwain

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Dwain Alford
Alford Design Group
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Winfield, Alabama 35594

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