Gareth Davies wrote: > This is probably a pretty lame questions, but say I've got a HP 4500N > colour laser, I can access it as I'm on Win2k and I can add a default > TCP/IP port and print raw to it. > > But the clients on Win 98 cannot, how would I 'connect' samba to this > printer so it was shared and they could get to it? > > Is it very difficult to do? The first time is a little bit harder, but it's easy.
> Do I need to locate linux drivers for the no > printer or can I just print direct via lpr? yes > Is there any guides on how to do this? There is a document about debugging printing issues with samba, mine is in : /usr/share/doc/samba-????/docs/textdocs/Printing.txt Basically you have to config the printer in the linux server. As soon as you can print from the command line you must add a printer entry in smb.conf. See also examples/printing in the samba docs. -- frankie -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba