What you want is SAMBA. This lets Linux participate in an MS Winblows
network... and gives it the ability to share or use printers on the same
network.
Note: You might actually want to connect the printer to the Linux box and
let the Winblows machines spool to Linux. This is far more efficient! Linux
despools the jobs from the Winblows machines very quickly...
You get postscript support to boot, if you do things this way. I.E. your
Panasonic "becomes" a postscript printer too! Something Winblows does not
do...
Read up on setting up Samba. It's actually easier than it looks.
There are many resources on the net for it, and if you enable SWAT (what's
that you ask?) you'll even get a nice Webpage control/configuration panel
for Samba which makes setting it up a breeze.
-JMS
-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Vogel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, May 26, 2000 9:04 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [expert] Printer on network...
Hey everyone. I've got a small network set up at home... Mandrake Linux
7.02 networked to my Windows 2000 machine via a hub. I've got a printer
(Panasonic KX-P1124) attached to the back of the Windows machine.
I'm looking for step-by-step process to get the printer to work with Linux,
but I'm coming up blank.
Can someone help?
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