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Dedoimedo published an important tutorial explaining how to setup printing to Samba printers connected to Windows hosts in CentOS 7 through manual compilation and installation of the Python Samba client (pysmbc, py-smbc), with additional tips and tricks applicable to all distributions, and more.



After reading my Nvidia howto and the perfect desktop guide for CentOS, you sure crave for more. And the problem you are facing is as follows: You want to print to Samba printers, located on Windows machines. Only the Browse button is grayed out. You want to resolve this issue, but you are not quite sure how.

Let me show you the ultimate guide to fixing CentOS 7 printing, and possibly all and any Samba related printing in Linux. This very closely relates to the issue we saw in the fourth part on Windows to Linux migration and an outstanding bug that requires the use of a different printing utility to get things done. Follow me, and read carefully.
  How to setup Samba printing in CentOS 7 - Tutorial