On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 10:29:04AM -0700, Stewart Stremler wrote: > begin quoting John Oliver as of Wed, May 03, 2006 at 09:49:25AM -0700: > > With Windows XP, when you connect to a shared printer, your PC will > > automagically grab drivers from the Windows print server. Can a Linux > > print server provide those drivers like that? > > #include <std.postscript.rant> > > But seriously... what drivers would it provide? Linux drivers? MSWindows > drivers? BSD drivers? And what platform? x86? PPC? SPARC? Alpha? ARM? > > It gets far more complicated with Linux, because you have a lot of > assumptions you need to nail down.
Not really... a Windows host connecting is probably going to want Windows drivers :-) And a pretty safe assumption would be x86 platform :-) I'm not asking if Linux has some magic ability to guess. If Samba or CUPS can recognize that a Windows client has connected and send the files contained in a given directory (even though those files would be worthless to Linux), that would be more than sufficient. As it is, once I get the printer on a Linux system, I'll probably just create a share with the drivers and manually install them. That's no biggie with a dozen or so PCs and two printers. I'm just thinking ahead to when we might have quite a few more desktops and printers, maybe scattered around. -- *********************************************************************** * John Oliver http://www.john-oliver.net/ * * * *********************************************************************** -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
