On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 18:52, Kevin Anderson wrote: > We take a preconfigured Windows box. > We take a Linux box, add CUPS, configure CUPS, create a printer, perhaps > install foo-matic drivers and/or ghostscript, then go to smb.conf, and set > it up to print with CUPS (it probably is, but we'd want to discuss what is > needed, and why). go back to the Windows box, and map to the printer. Add > in any sort of "uniqueness" (new Cups printers don't show up unless Samba > re-reads smb.conf) that should be discussed. Print a test page. Time's up. > More or less. Cups is one method of printing. There are several. If I'm > the only one using cups, I've wasted everyone's time.
Yes! Printing with samba is another great thing to talk about. I think printing to remote printers and sharing your printer would be useful to many people. I also think that most people are using CUPS these days. I know it has been the standard printing system in Mandrake for awhile now. I think SuSE uses it as well. RedHat 8.0 was the first version to ship with CUPS as an optional package. The default is still lprng, however 8.1 will use CUPS as the default printing system. > Given my own guess, most people want to be able to connect a single Linux > desktop to a (spouses) Windows desktop and share files & printers in either > direction. Mostly I'm looking for confirmation that that is an accurate > guess. I believe it was Jarrod that was trying to set up a situation like > that most reciently on the list. I suspect he isn't alone. When I first started using Linux, I wanted to use it at home and at work. At work it was most critical because I didn't want people to slam me for not using Windows, it had to fit into the environment perfectly, or I may have been forced to use Windows or at the very least people would not see Linux in a good light. I needed to be able to share my files on the Windows network, access other peoples shares, print to remote printers and share my printer. At home it was another story. I had one other machine here and I put Linux on it as well. I setup my home machine with samba and the same workgroup that I had at the office. That way I could drop my laptop into the network and everything would work. Jesse
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