[ale] Printer Questions

[Zot O'Connor]

This may be old news...

But if you network is not really tight, like a normal "workgroup"
everything is open netbios nightmare, then merely loading samba and
pointing to it should work.

I just used Redhat's printer manager under 5.1 to make Staroffice 5.0
print to my deskjet 1200C off my NT box which is the PDC for a
moderately tight domain.

The only problem is you need to store a user/name pair in a file.

I suppose I could look at lprd for NT, but it is working....


Nick Lucent wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 18 Jul 1998, Jeremy T. Bouse wrote:
> 
> really? Everyone Ive known that prints to win from linux has samba
> installed in order to print, I dont know if they put the script in theyre
> printcap or what, but Ive heard that it was a pain in the butt, but like I
> said Ive never printed to win from linux
> Nick
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> > On Sat, 18 Jul 1998, Nick Lucent wrote:
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> > > Date: Sat, 18 Jul 1998 15:37:59 -0400 (EDT)
> > > From: Nick Lucent <nlucent at mindspring.com>
> > > To: "Dave[tm]" <spork at trusted.net>
> > > Cc: ale at cc.gatech.edu
> > > Subject: Re: [ale] Printer Questions
> > >
> > > On Sat, 18 Jul 1998, Dave[tm] wrote:
> > >
> > > Linux can print to that printer but you will need samba installed to do
> > > it, samba comes with a couple scripts to print to a windows printer, but
> > > Ive heard (never done it myself) that they dont work and its a real pain
> > > in the butt to get working.
> >       Hmm... I've got 2 DEC Alphas, neither of which have Samba
> > install'd, printing off the HP Laserjet 5 shared off a Win95 workstation
> > in our office. I just use 'lpr filename' and it prints off fine. Both
> > machines are runnin RH5.
> >       Jeremy
> >
> >     Jeremy T. Bouse - SouthNet TeleComm Services, Inc - www.STSI.net
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