[ale] Printer Questions

[Dave[tm]]

Who's to say that I'm an adult? :)


>If you don't want Samba, you can put a LPD daemon on the Win95 computer.
You
>can buy the TCP/IP package from Netmanage, Hummingbird, or FTP software,
which
>would be like paying to get your Yugo painted. They do offer eval software.
>If you somehow acquired Hummingbird Exceed, then you can run X sessions
>on your Win95 computer to talk to your Linux host for even greater
perversity.
>I did it to see what it felt like. It was thrilling at first, but
afterwards I
>felt cheap, and ashamed. But who am I to say what consenting adults do in
the
>privacy of their home LAN?
>
>There's a shareware lpd for Win95  (winlpd.zip) that I've never used.
>
>You could put the printer on the computer running linux and put a shareware
lpr
>spooler on the Win95 machine. Search www.shareware.com for "spooler" -
There's
>a WLPRSPL spooler that lets you print from Windows to a Unix host. I
>have used the win3.1 version; it seemed to be OK.
>
>
>
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>Okay, I have an old HP Deskjet 540 hanging off a Win95 box that's connected
>to my home LAN.  Is it possible for Linux to print to that printer, or must
>Samba be installed?
>
>:wq
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>Until next time:  David dave at spork.deflux.org
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