On Friday 14 September 2001 11:10, Jose M. Sanchez wrote:
| 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.
A Linksys router assigns IP's to the machines on my local network. This unit
is also the Internet gateway. This setup is similar in the office and at
home. The only difference being that at home I am connecting my laptop to a
Windows 2000 box, while I am connecting to a Mandrake 8.0 box at work.
|
| There is very little information present in your question, if you are
| seeking a "how do I" response...
What I need is to be able to plug the network cable into the laptop in the
morning and share files with Mandrake 8.0 box and print with a printer
connected to it. The same goes for the Windows 2000 box at home. Right now
the files sharing works fines, but I am not able to figure out how to set up
the printing.
|
| However the short of it is, yes.
I will look at the information below, maybe I can figure it out from that.
Thanks! :)
|
| 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
|
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