begin quoting John Oliver as of Wed, May 03, 2006 at 11:45:30AM -0700: > 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 :-)
So you want a Linux print server to send over MSWindows print drivers to MSWindows boxen? > And a pretty safe assumption would be x86 platform > :-) Not in my household. :) > 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. Ah. This would require figuring out what MSWindows is doing to ask for those files. > 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. Still seems okay; it's going to be a read only directory, infrequently accessed. It'll scale nicely. The "do it all in one step" is a time savings that probably won't actually save any time. -- _ |\_ \| -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
