From: Rodent of Unusual Size <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Greater New Hampshire Linux Users <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2000 6:53 AM
Subject: Printing from RH6.1 to a W95 printer
> On my home network, my printer is attached to my Windows 95 box.
> I want to print to it from Linux as well. I added the printer
> with the printtool control panel, but it doesn't work: specifically,
> when I lpr -m a job from Linux, it vanishes into the bit bucket and
> I get a confirmation message -- but nothing actually comes out.
> If I give the Linux printer definition a bogus share name (i.e.,
> nothing like anything on the Windows box), I get identical
> behaviour.
> All the Samba printing docco I've found so far has been focussed
> on things going the other way: Windows trying to print on a
> Linux-served printer. Would someone be so kind as to point me
> at something that can help me get things to go the other direction?
> Thanks..
Go ahead and open up the smbprint script that get's installed as part of
samba. Most of the time, it's like /usr/bin/smbprint. It's a self
documented sh script that can accept print jobs, and forward them via
smbclient to a destination machine on a Win32 based network. It should do
the trick, or at least blatently show you how.. If it isn't installed as
part of your distro, I'd be glad to send you a copy..
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