(clug-talk) Samba/PDC/CUPS and Win2k

[Johnny Stork]

Came across this. If I can setup Samba/CUPS to use raw printing, would it effect the Linux clients printing to the same machine? Now would I just use the KDE/Control Panel applet to change the settings to be "raw" for the Samsung printer?...not in front of a Linux machine at the moment Using CUPS as a mere spooling print server -- "raw" printing with vendor drivers download You can setup Samba and your Windows clients to use the CUPS print subsystem just as you would with any of the more traditional print subsystems: that means the use of vendor provided, native Windows printer drivers for each target printer. If you setup the [print$] share to download these drivers to the clients, their GDI system (Graphical Device Interface) will output the Wndows EMF (Enhanced MetaFile) and convert it -- with the help of the printer driver -- locally into the format the printer is expecting. Samba and the CUPS print subsystem will have to treat these files as raw print files -- they are already in the shape to be digestable for the printer. This is the same traditional setup for Unix print servers handling Windows client jobs. It does not take much CPU power to handle this kind of task efficiently. ________________________________ Open Enterprise Solutions Open Solutions for an Open World Johnny Stork, BA Calgary, AB Canada http://www.openenterprise.ca http://www.open-solutions.ca