The macosxhints forum has listed a tip for enabling printing to a windows hosted printer in OSX. In a typical AppleOS move, they hid the option in an Option-click. Option clicking the Add button in Print Manager was supposed to call up an enhanced “advanced” menu, with “Windows printer via SAMBA” as an option. But alas, it wasn’t there when I tried it. But last night I found the tip to make the tip work. Run the following two commands from a terminal window:

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/smbspool /usr/libexec/cups/backend/smb