[ale] Printing to a Windows share

[hirsch at zapmedia.com]

Joseph A Knapka writes:
 > In the "I could probably figure this out myself, but
 > I got a 1040 with my name on it, and that's enough
 > stress for one week" department:
 > 
 > At the moment I have to Samba files over to my
 > NT (hack, spit) machine in order to print them
 > on my wife's Win98 (retch, hurl) machine's printer.
 > Of course, this sucks. Any pointers to some magic
 > piece of software that will let me print directly
 > to that printer from my Linux and BSD (sigh, purr)
 > boxen? Or maybe I ought to hook the printer to
 > a *nix box and let the M$ boxen print to it
 > instead?

If you can samba mount the files, you should be able to samba print
the files.  You didn't say which distribution you use, but both redhat
and mandrake have built in support for windows printing.  Use
printtool for redhat.  I forget what I used for mandrake, but I use
CUPS for my printing system and printing to Windows machines works
well.

--Michael


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