On Saturday 07 June 2003 17:51, GarUlbricht7@netscape.net wrote:
The Wizard
wrote: On Saturday 07 June 2003 02:19, Kenneth Payne wrote:
I know you can share a printer attached to a Linux box with Windows machines on the same network by using Samba. But can a Linux box access a printer attached to a Windows machine?
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Ken - Much depends on the version of Windows you're using. I have a desktop (with all my printers connected to it) running Windows2000. I activated the "Unix Printer Service" which lets CUPS access the Windows print queue as an "lpd://" printer. Works fine for me, under both 8.1 and 8.2.
That's where I want to get to-- but we are still running Windows 95 on one box -- so the way we share printers is using a switch. The two machines are in the same room --- so with 3 printer cables and one radio shack $15 switch -- done deal
Yeah, WIn95 and WIn98 are both problematic sharing printers or filesystems with the newer versions, I dumped the Win9x versions long ago (and I'd dump Win2k if I could convince the wife to learn SuSE/KDE). -- Powered by SuSE Linux 8.2/Kmail 1.5.2