On Tuesday 29 January 2002 15:22, Randy Kramer wrote: > Brian Parish wrote: > > I have made a similar setup work. Just be aware that while windoze uses > > the IP address on the printer to find it, CUPS is using a hostname, so > > you need to put an entry for the printer in /etc/hosts so it can find > > it. > > This is slightly off the point, but I've been wondering -- does CUPS run > "on top of" Samba? I.e., must Samba be running for CUPS to work? > > Randy Kramer
No... CUPS is independent of Samba. If you have CUPS running in several computers they are all aware of each others printers, and you can print to any of them. I think they can also print to any printer Samba is aware of. Not sure about that as my printers are on Linux machines.
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