Dave is correct, you just need to make sure the printer share is available
for all users.
My application is perhaps a third form:
The printer is on the intranet and is shared between a Win NT server and
several Unix boxen. I have (for fun) enabled the printer via Samba as well,
to see how it performed.
The only hassles I have had are when the NT server jobs hog the printer for
extended times.
Under these conditions, the Samba / Unix systems tell the user that there
has been a problem with the job, however the job is still spooled and lpd
does eventually get round to doing something about it.
There is a timeout on print jobs on the Samba configuration side, to prevent
Win things from polling the Samba server excessively. The effect on the user
is that their first print job gets spooled fairly quickly (assuming they are
already logged in) but subsequent jobs don't get spooled until the timer
times out (2 minutes I think I've set at the moment). This could be annoying
to some, but it is configurable.
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Jill Rowling
Senior Design Engineer & Unix System Administrator
Electronic Engineering Department, Aristocrat Leisure Industries
3rd Floor, 77 Dunning Ave Rosebery NSW 2018
Phone: (02) 9697-4484 Fax: (02) 9663-1412
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> Subject: Re: [SLUG] Samba Printing
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> Steven Kerr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > I wish to print FROM the Linux System to an existing printer attached
> > to a Win95/98 Box using samba.
>
> I want to do the reverse, printer is attached to linux box, so to
> print from lose95 I assume all I need to do is install samba on the
> linux box? (then it will "appear" as a network printer or whatever
> M$ calls it when you add the printer in lose95?)
> Am I missing anything?
>
> Thanks,
> Dave.
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