On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 1:41 PM, Paul Hartman <[email protected]> wrote: <SNIP> > > In my case I have a "winprinter", doesn't do anything without drivers, > doesn't have native understanding of postscript or PCL or anything > like that, isn't a network printer so it doesn't have its own IP > address. Just a plain cheapo USB printer. Any printer sharing will > have to go through the host machine, and it sounds like you're in the > same boat as me. It's a USB printer so i just change the cable when i > want to print, but that's not very elegant. It would be nice to just > set it up and forget about it. >
So that's like one of those old winmodems that only worked with Windows drivers loaded? > In my case I've got a gentoo desktop, a windows XP/Vista dual-boot > deskop and a gentoo/XP64 dual-boot laptop. > > I just found this page on Google about doing this with Debian and it > looks fairly simple. It does use Samba. > > http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Debian-and-Windows-Shared-Printing/sharing_with_windows.html > Looks helpful and boiled down from the 1000 lines in the Gentoo version looks more manageable. If I have to go that way I'll report back what I find. I'm trying to understand what Willie has point us at. Thanks, Mark
