On 5/3/06, Stewart Stremler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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?
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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... and you'd probably manage the
printer-driver situation with a standard package anyway, so the standard
package-management tools for your system would be the place to start.
Isn't this the problem that CUPS (Common Unix Printing System) is
intended to solve? Whether it does it well is another question, but
that's the first place I would look.
carl
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