On Saturday, January 11, 2003, at 07:01 PM, Henri Yandell wrote: > 2) Move the printer to our Linux file server and try to hook the > printer > up via Samba. No idea if Macs can talk to this. I assume Windows/Linux > could.
This isn't very hard to do. I've done it with several old printers. There are a bunch of How-To docs that can be Googled. Samba will let the printer appear in the Network Neighborhood, but you don't need Samba, if you can print to the lpd queue. Netatalk will let it appear in the Mac OS 9 Chooser and the Mac OS X Printer Utility as an Appletalk printer. The Linux Printing How To is a good place to start <http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/Printing-HOWTO/index.html> Once you get the queue set up on the Linux machine, Samba is pretty easy to set up, if you have Swat installed. I always find Netatalk printing really fussy to set up. I've got an old DeskJet 1600C hooked up like this right now, and the other machines think it's a color PostScript laser printer. (I'm about to toss it because the cartridges are too expensive for it and they need replacing.) | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 28. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
