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. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
