begin quoting Carl Lowenstein as of Thu, May 31, 2007 at 09:09:33AM -0700: > On 5/31/07, Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >I don't see network printing on Jim's wish list. People seem to be > >discussing it, but just to make sure, I'm far more interested in basic > >printer sharing (which I've never gotten working under cups) than margins > >and other foo foo. Well, foo foo to me. > > By far the easiest way to share printers if you have a network is to > use a networked printer. Maybe that is too obvious. It is hardware > intensive since you need the specialized box to attach the printer to > the network.
Indeed. Many of the home-firewall-and-NAT-box widgets provide this. It helps if it's a postscript printer. > In principle this "specialized box" can be just another computer on > the network, I haven't done anything like that for many years, but > will give it another try during the next few days. I haven't tried that since CUPS "improved" the situation. Good luck. -- Not all change is necessarily progress. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-steer
