On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, you wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have a tiny TCP/IP ether-network over here, consisting of my Linux box
> and my wife's Windows 95 (no comments, please ;)). The printer is attached
> to the Win95 box.
> The Win95 box has a telnet/ftp and a VNC server running.
>
> What I currently do when I want to print is:
>
> - uploading the file via ftp to the Win95 box
> - starting a VNC-client and tell the printer to print it
> - rebooting Win95 from VNC, because it locks the keyboard of the
> Win-machine :-\
>
> This seems quite awkward to me. Isn't there something like Samba for
> Windows (i.e. a print-server I can just send the files I want printed)?
> Oh, yeah, for free, of course ;-). Or maybe I can do that via telnet?
>
Have you tried going into Network Neighborhood and sharing your
printer? Then, using SAMBA (IIRC, Win9x REQUIRES encrypted
passwords...or maybe it's the other way around...sorry, never used
it, just going from memory <G>) set up the printer as a NETWORK
printer and it SHOULD work just fine!
John
