On Tuesday 30 December 2003 22:35, Chuck Stuettgen wrote:
On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 23:08, John Andersen wrote:
On Tuesday 30 December 2003 07:37, Kenneth Schneider wrote:
You will also need to install and configure samba in order to be able to use the printers on a linux machine. www.samba.org has a lot of documentation as well as www.cups.org.
Ken
I'm sorry Ken but that it just not true. And it hasn't been true for a long long time.
All Win2k and later come with IPP print capability built in. You just configure it as a network printer and give http://yourlogin:password@your-linux-box:631/printers/printer-name as the printer url.
If the printer has a network card like a HP Jetdirect you can also configure your computer to print directly the printer and bypasss the Samba server altogether.
But don't do that. If you have a linux server, use it as such rather than relying on a dumb print box to arbitrate concurrent access. Send it all thru cups. All of it. It will feed the jet-direct boxes one job at a time. This way you configure ALL stations to go thru the server, and when a jetdirect box needs replacement or a new one comes you only have ONE machine to re-configure not a whole office full. Printers are the bain of a sys-admin's existance, and the first and most effective step toward getting it to go smoothly is to send it all thru the server. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen