Students may have received an email such as the following from Ngee Ann Polytechnic: 
Basically, the kind folks at Ngee Ann Polytechnic give directions to all MS Windows users on how to use the network printers in NP. Too bad that they don’t help Linux users. But don’t worry- it’s very easy to use the printers with Linux.
I assume that you are running KDE. Open the Control Center (kcontrol) and navigate to Printers via Peripherals. Get into Administrator Mode and add a new printer. When prompted, selected “SMB Shared Printer (Windows)“.
Enter your username and password, but make sure that you specify the domain NPSTD:
Username: NPSTD/s12345678
Password: your NP password
Next, provide the details of the network printer:
The server, which is ictpolo in this example, should be the server that Windows users connect to with “\\ictpolo\printername”, but append “.school.np.edu.sg”. In this case, the server is “ictpolo.ict.np.edu.sg“.
The printer name is simply the name of the printer given. In this case, it’s a dot-matrix printer named ictmatrix1.
That’s it! Print a test page to see if it works.
Do note that each student has a printing quota of 150 pages per semester for laser printers, and an unlimited quota for dot-matrix printers.
5 responses so far ↓
Idetrorce // December 15, 2007 at 10:59 pm
very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
Idetrorce
Michaelk // December 16, 2007 at 12:30 am
Idetrorce,
Dude, it works!
Michaelk // December 16, 2007 at 12:32 am
After googling for your name, I’ve found that you have made the exact same comment elsewhere:
http://www.dailyseoblog.com/2007/09/dailyseoblog-podcast-how-to-get-indexed-on-google-in-48-hours/#comment-1801
Very funny.
Joel // August 27, 2008 at 11:18 am
Um Michael,ever heard of bots?
spaiduhz // October 20, 2009 at 6:12 am
Ah. That makes sense. I was scratching my head wondering why the WinXP VBox can happily add and print to the printers, but i just cant add the printer in ubuntu.
If i knew this much earlier, i probably wont have that much trouble printing documents that were written in open office.
I retrospect, i could have just installed open office in the virtual machine. too late for that now.