Samba will work correctly. The only hitch is that if you are
going to a HP type printer you may need to use a unix2dos on
the file before you use smbclient (at least on an older version).
unless your sending full PCL coding. Although I think there might
be a switch in samba which will do it for you. see
(http://www.samba.org)

I use RPM by (http://www.brooksnet.com) it isn't a free product. But
it does work real nice, it is a lpd daemon. RPM will allow one
PC to have upto 20 queues, each queue can be any printer that
PC is capable of printing to, and to unix/linux it's just a remote
printer.

Since it going to an NT, I thought you could install from the
NT CD the remote printer service, then you could just setup the
linux machine queue as a remote printer on the NT (have never
tried this, since we had rpm working).

George Gallen
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 1999 11:22 AM
> To: Juan Jose Casero
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Steve Dodd; Arshad Mahmood;
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Sharing printers with Windows (was Re: `')
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I don`t think samba is the right thing for that. If I understand
> it correct: There is a printer connected to a windows-machine.
> And you want to print from Linux to this printer. Then, samba
> will not work, because samba would be the same as the windows-machine
> with its printer.
> 
> What you have to do is: Find a lpd-Daemon for windows. I know
> there is one. I think it is free. Then you have to modify your 
> /etc/printcap file on linux to point to the lpd-daemon of windows.
> Then, printing should work
> 
> Oliver
> 
> On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Juan Jose Casero wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Steve Dodd wrote:
> > 
> > Samba seems to be what you want.  I have a home LAN with a 
> Linux box serving 
> > as a print server to both my unix boxen and the windows 9x 
> boxen via samba.  I
> > still am not able to get NT to see the printers.  Maybe 
> someone on this list
> > could explain why NT doesn't see the printers on a samba machine.
> > 
> > Ciao...
> > 
> >  > On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 03:45:31PM +0500, Arshad Mahmood wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Is there any possibilty that a printer that is 
> installed and shared on a
> > > > Microsoft WindowsXX machine and can be accessed by a 
> Linux machine that is
> > > > on the same LAN. 
> > > 
> > > Probably, grab a copy of Samba and play with it (don't 
> forget to read the
> > > documentation ;-)
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > Ah, but you're forgetting Rimmer directive 273 which 
> states just as
> > > clearly, "No chance you metal bastard!"
> > > 
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