> A windows shared printer can be accessed in Linux only via samba. CUPS > setup (localhost:631 in browser) has an option for samba printer. You > will have to check if your printer is directly compatible with the Linux > drivers or you need to feed it a seperate ppd file. Some printers > require a firmware. > > In the link > http://puppylinux.org/wiki/how-tos/general/genericsharedpostscriptprinteronwindows > provided earlier by Arun I went through it again and found that they use > a different method by which you need no drivers for Linux. The .ps file > is simply pushed RAW to the windows machine which then passes it on to > its printer thus eliminating installation of Linux drivers. > >> 2. I can mount a window share by smbclient, but mount -t smbfs <other >> parameters> fails. >> Any idea...
Ok, Now dot matrix on XP is working from linux box, but Canon LBP1210 refuses to budge. As far as window share mount, I was using -t smbfs, but -t cifs worked. For canon , will check again, or else go postscript way. But this needs installation of lots of software on XP, and I wanted to avoid it. Warm Regards, Mr. Mukund Deshmukh, Beta Computronics Pvt Ltd. 10/1 IT Park, Parsodi, Nagpur -440022 India. Web site - http://betacomp.com Meet us at our Booth 10.1 A09 , CHINAPLAS 2009 , May 18 - 21, 2009, Pazhou Complex, Guangzhou, CHINA. -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
