[ale] Sharing non-network-capable printer

[Geoffrey]

Randy C. Ramsdell wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 17:32 -0400, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> 
>>Not sure about the MAC side of this but I use a Linux box running
>>Cups/samba to share out my USP HP printer to my linux boxes and my
>>wife's windows laptop.  (She has to use windows for school)...
>>
> 
> 
> We found the printing from this scenario absolutely too slow when
> printing from windows systems to a Linux box /samba. I never found out
> why this happened. This is why we switched to using a Linksys print
> server. Have you noticed slow printing from a windows system?

My wife prints from a windows box to my laser printer via samba, and it 
is quite fast.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey