On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 05:06:07PM -0400, Stead, Joe wrote: > I have an application that prints forms using PCL and data that I'd like to > port from WIN to LINUX. > Has anyone used SAMBA to do this? Any hints on commands?
I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to do. If you just want to print the forms from the existing applications to a Linux-controlled printer, then Samba will work fine for that. As far as the Windows app is concerned, a Samba controlled printer is a Windows printer and it can continue to construct the exact same datastreams and get the same results as you do now. If you're porting the application to Linux from Windows, then the only area that Samba would help you is being able to use Windows printing protocols to print to Windows-only printer devices. Samba is not a development environment, it's just a infrastructure tool that makes Unix resources look like Windows resources to a SMB-using client. Any application restructuring you need to do to fit Linux, that's outside of the scope of what Samba can do for you. -- db
