Re: [TCLUG:17983] Sharing a WinPrinter with SAMBA

[Mike Hicks <hick0088@tc.umn.edu>]

Andy Zbikowski wrote:
> 
> Troy Johnson wrote:
> >
> > Does printing from the samba machine work? If it doesn't work from the
> > server to the printer, it surely won't work from the client to server to
> > printer.
> >
> Worng. The printer can't work from the SAMBA machine beacuse it's a
> windows only printer. It can be shared by the SAMBA server though. You
> can use the windows drivers on a windows based client to send
> information to the printer however.

Well, in the very least, you could have printed to a file on the Windows
box, transferred the file to the Samba machine, then just `cat'-ed the
file straight to /dev/lp0 or whatever..  (Well, in theory..)

But you got it to work, so the point is moot..

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