John Aldrich wrote:
>
> 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
Thanks for all the help! Works like a charm.
tom
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