Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3378 mails)

[Keith Winston <kwinston@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 11:17:31PM +1000, John Blue wrote:
> Hi Keith,
> > Not quite sure what you are asking here.  Where is the scanner
> > connected in this scenario?
> Sorry, this was in an earlier post. I have a scanner connected to my 
> present NT4 workstation on the parallel port, and the Lexmark 
> printyer connects to/through the scanner to the PC.
> 
> So I was wondering if I had Samba running would I be able to print 
> from the Linux machine through Samba to that printer (if still 
> connected through the scanner on the NT4 PC)?

In theory, if it prints on NT, it should print jobs sent to it from a
Linux machine.  I always prefer NOT to daisy chain parallel devices, it
is a hack, some combinations work, other don't.

>  It also raises the question, could I connect the scanner to the 
> Linux PC, and the Lexmark printer through the scanner and have the 
> printer work OK with Linux?

Depending on the scanner, the sane package may work.  Again, I'd rather
install a second parallel port if you want them both on the same
machine.

Best Regards,
Keith
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