[ale] Cups and SMB

[Michael Hirsch]

On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 21:04, Geoffrey wrote:
> 
> 
> 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...
>

That is why I asked "Are you sure that it is only a windows printer?" 
Lots of people think all the printers in my office are "windows
printers" because they can print to them from Windows.  And they are
windows printers--they have a print queue managed by a windows machine. 
But they are also network printers and have a unix print queue on them. 
I can print to them with standard lpd, or with cups.  

So I ask again whether these are networked printers, or printers that
are directly connected only to one windows pc via parallel or USB cable
like Jim described above.

--Michael
> > 
> > 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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