Derek Jennings wrote: > Randy Kramer wrote: > > This is slightly off the point, but I've been wondering -- does CUPS run > > "on top of" Samba? I.e., must Samba be running for CUPS to work? > > No... CUPS is independent of Samba. If you have CUPS running in several > computers they are all aware of each others printers, and you can print to > any of them. I think they can also print to any printer Samba is aware of. > Not sure about that as my printers are on Linux machines.
Thanks! BTW, WRT your second last sentence, Linux boxes running CUPS can print to Windows boxes using TCP/IP based SMB (which is what Samba was written to do for Linux) -- this is how I currently print from my Linux boxes. Randy Kramer
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