[ale] Printer Questions

[tko at westgac3.dragon.com]

Dave[tm] writes:
> 
> 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.
> >
> >
> >
> >-------------Original message follows----------------------
> >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?

Probably since you would need the 'smbclient' program. You will also need to 
modify the /etc/printcap file and possibly create a file or two. For details:

read /usr/doc/samba/examples/printing/smbprint

> >
> >:wq
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