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[rangerruss]

well i finally got it working.......using smb://<workgroup>/dlink-<s/n>:631/lp

thank you all for your encouragement and help

[Jester5000]

This may sound like a stupid question, but what make/model is your printer??  Not all printers are capable of being "shared" via USB printer port, like on the NAS. 
Case in point, I was excited about the thought of finally killing a few birds with one stone by having a designated NAS device, and finally sharing our one printer amongst an XP desktop and laptop and Win7 laptop...
After countless hours of frustration, conclusion was, my printer, a Lexmark z515 was not capable of being "shared" in that way.  I may be wrong, but that's what I've learned.
If someone can prove me otherwise, I will be eternally grateful.

[rangerruss]

This may sound like a stupid question, but what make/model is your printer??  Not all printers are capable of being "shared" via USB printer port, like on the NAS. 
Case in point, I was excited about the thought of finally killing a few birds with one stone by having a designated NAS device, and finally sharing our one printer amongst an XP desktop and laptop and Win7 laptop...
After countless hours of frustration, conclusion was, my printer, a Lexmark z515 was not capable of being "shared" in that way.  I may be wrong, but that's what I've learned.
If someone can prove me otherwise, I will be eternally grateful.

first of all the only stupid question is the one that is not asked.....

now down to business.....

I have a canon i560 being shared by a laptop(vista), another laptop(XP Pro) and a desktop(debian sid linux).  everything works, drives shared, mounted and data can be moved back and forth.

The printer can execute jobs from all the computers.  It is attached to the USB port on the DLINK NAS 323.

as long as the printer is not a GDI printer that needs part of windows to run, you should have no problemsl

[Jester5000]

the lexmark z515 is a GDI printer...

http://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=4&ved=0CCwQFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.airlink101.com%2Fdownload%2Fdownload_links%2Fprintlist.pdf&rct=j&q=GDI%20printer%20list&ei=btxSTeDXMsH7lweilqnhCg&usg=AFQjCNEOK6s0D3Wsr1kRGGU3DO4NdrUvqQ&cad=rja

http://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=5&ved=0CDIQFjAE&url=ftp%3A%2F%2F217.11.229.6%2FPlanet%2FFPS-1011%2FGDI%2520Printer%2520List.pdf&rct=j&q=GDI%20printer%20list&ei=btxSTeDXMsH7lweilqnhCg&usg=AFQjCNHDTQKU-3cUVeLy1Th2BrW_r6OUOA&cad=rja