Re: Linux print server, windows machines
Brian Morgan wrote:
> I've got kind of a rather lengthy question about windows machines
> printing to a linux print server. I'm rather new at this, but was asked
> to investigate these possibilities. Any help I could get would be
> great.
>
> I'm running hamm, 2.0.33 kernel, and need to connect several printers on
> our campus to the linux print server (whatever that may be: I don't
> know. Is there a print server type package I need to have installed?)
samba is the package you need to allow WinXX boxes to print to your printer.
You'll also need a print spooling daemon. Try the lprng package.
> All the printers will have ip addresses, via HP jetdirect boxes and
> cards. I will have several laptops that will need to be able to print
> to these printers. All the laptops will be running windows 98.
>
> I'm also running samba on my linux box, but haven't quite got the hang
> of it yet (getting closer). Is this the service I need to allow the
> windows machines to print to the linux print server? Do I need to
> specify anything in the smb.conf file (ip addresses, etc.) or is that
> done somewhere else in a different package?
Yeah, you may need to edit /etc/smb.conf, though the default may be enough. To
make things easy you can put
load printers = yes
printing = bsd
in your [global] section. If you need to supply drivers automatically your setup
will be more involved. You may refer to /usr/doc/samba/Printing.txt.gz in this
case.
> Any help I could get to get started would be great. If I need to give
> more info. before any of you can formulate an answer, let me know that
> as well.
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Jens B. Jorgensen
jjorgens@bdsinc.com
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