Sharing Raw Printer Access via SAMBA
Hi everyone, I am attempting to figure out how to share raw access to my printer via SAMBA. The reason I want to use raw access is that I want a Windows-based PC to be able to print to it using the normal HP driver rather than a Postscript driver. Any suggestions? Thanks, Tim -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy R. Butler Universal Networks tbutler@uninetsolutions.com ICQ #12495932 AIM: Uninettm Free/Open Source Web Tools: http://www.uninetsolutions.com Christian Portal and Search Tool: http://www.faithtree.com ============== "Christian Web Services Since 1996" ==============
On Sat, 11 Aug 2001, Timothy R.Butler wrote: tb> Hi everyone, tb> I am attempting to figure out how to share raw access to my tb> printer via SAMBA. The reason I want to use raw access is that I tb> want a Windows-based PC to be able to print to it using the normal tb> HP driver rather than a Postscript driver. Any suggestions? tb> Not sure if this will help you, but I simply added my printer as a normal shared printer under samba. Then on the windows machines, installed the driver saying it was attached to LPT1. After installation, I denied the 'test printer option' and then went into the printer configuration and set it up as a network printer. Worked quite well on my end. tb> Thanks, tb> Tim tb> -- S.Toms - smotrs@mindspring.com - www.mindspring.com/~smotrs SuSE Linux v7.0+ - Kernel 2.2.18 "Here's something to think about: How come you never see a headline like `Psychic Wins Lottery'?" -- Jay Leno
On 11-Aug-2001 Timothy R.Butler wrote:
Hi everyone, I am attempting to figure out how to share raw access to my printer via SAMBA. The reason I want to use raw access is that I want a Windows-based PC to be able to print to it using the normal HP driver rather than a Postscript driver. Any suggestions?
Thanks, Tim Hi Tim,
You don't mention what print system you are using. If cups you don't need to do anything except in smb.conf add the line printing = cups in the [global] section Then on your windows system install the driver you want to use. On lprold add something like the following to your /etc/smb.conf [raw] comment = Raw Printer printer driver = "your printer type" browseable = yes printable = yes public = no read only = yes create mode = 0700 directory = /tmp This then will show up when you attempt to install a driver on your win system Regards, Graham Smith _______________________________________
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