Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (229 mails)

[David Herman <ob1@xxxxxxxxx>]

People are always writing about printing from windows but my problem is 
the opposite.

I just installed suse 7.2 pro on a couple of dell optiplex150 at my 
daughters school. The classrooms each have their own router for net/lan.
One of the win 98 machines has a printer which all other machines in 
the class print to.

question 1) What do I need to do to have the linux box print to the Win 
98 machine. (I have no networking experience) (yet ;-)

Question 2) This will probably make question 1 mute. I believe the 
printer that the server uses is a gdi printer (lexmark z12 if I 
remember) Can I print to this since Windows is acting as the server or 
do I need a "real" printer.

This is a 4th/5th grade classroom, the kids ask "Why would I want to 
use linux. I'm going to have a hard time answering that satisfactorilly 
if they can't print out their work.

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dh