DHCP is merely the mechanism for the computer you are on, to obtain an IP address. That address must be given to it by a controlling DHCP server elsewhere on your network, which you did not talk about. There is very little information present in your question, if you are seeking a "how do I" response... However the short of it is, yes. Winblows systems have no trouble printing to CUP servers. In fact CUPS is capable of further forwarding a print request/job to other networked machines and printers as Winblows 2k does. Let's say you have another machine on your network with a shared printer in winblows. Cups can connect to it via samba. In turn Linux and other Winblows machines can in turn connect to the cups server and send print jobs to it. This means that CUPS becomes the queue server for your Winblows shared printer. Likewise Cups can do this for other Linux printers, Novell printers, Jetdirect printers, etc. On my home network I have one printer hanging off a Novell Server (yes sadly). Novell Clients can print directly to this printer. I have Cups/NCPFS set up to forward CUPs jobs to this same printer under Novell. This permits Linux machines to print to the Novell printer. In turn I have Samba set up. Winblows machines can then also print to the printer, without requiring the Novell Client software, merely the MS client. They send jobs from winblows to cups via samba, cups sends the job to Netware where it gets printed. The same CUPS machine also talks directly to a Jetdirect equipped HP1200C and two Epson 1270 color printers on Winblows workstations. Quite convoluted, but it displays the flexibility of Linux/Samba/NCPFS & CUPS. -JMS |-----Original Message----- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Christian Dysthe |Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 11:32 AM |To: Mandrake Expert |Subject: [expert] Samba, DHCP and CUPS | | |Hi, | |before I spend a lot of time on this I would like to know if |it is possible |at all: | |I have a work computer running Mandrake 8.0, a home computer |running Windows |2000, and a laptop I bring back and forth running Mandrake |8.0. I have Samba |and DHCP installed on the Mandrake box at work and on the |laptop. It works |now wirh DHCP connecting the laptop to both the Windows 2000 |box at home and |the Mandrake 8.0 box at work. What doesn't work though is |printing. So I |would like to know if it is possible at all to do network |printing using CUPS |and Samba in a network running DHCP where no machine has a static IP? | |Both the Windows 2000 machine at home and the Mandrake box at work are |connected to the Internet using a Linksys Broadband router |which provides the |DHCP server. | |Convenience is so important when you drag a laptop from |network to network |every day, so I hope I can make printing work somehow. | |TIA | |-- |Kind Regards, |Christian Dysthe |Registered Linux user #228949 | | "Happiness is good health and bad memory" | Ingrid Bergman | | | |
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