[ale] Cups and SMB

[Geoffrey]

James P. Kinney III wrote:
> No. That spec is for the printer that is connected to the cat5 line
> directly. That is a real "network printer". If the printer is connected
> to a pc which in turn is connected to the cat5 line, it is a shared
> printer if it is a Windows OS on the pc. 
> 
> In that case (windoze box with parallel/USB cable to printer), the
> smbclient sotware is required to mangle, er, handle the protocols
> properly.

Agreed, but I don't know where Michael came up with a networked printer, 
when Chris was asking about a win2k printer, which I assumed to mean a 
printer hanging off a win2k machine...

> 
> On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 19:51, Geoffrey wrote:
> 
>>
>>Michael Hirsch wrote:
>>
>>>On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 15:18, cfowler wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>I stopped lpd on RH7.3 because it cannot print to Win2k printers without
>>>>script modifications.  I thought I try cups.  But it does not do smb. 
>>>>Is there any good method to print to winbloze printers?
>>>
>>>
>>>Are you sure that it is only a windows printer?  Every networked printer
>>>I've seen has a unix print queue in it that you can print to directly.
>>
>>Say that again?  Are you saying that you can print to a windows printer 
>>from a UNIX box without Samba?
>>
>>
>>>--Michael
>>>
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