On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 05:37:43PM +1100, Bill Bennett ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> Dear Anyone,
>
> Another, alright a recurrent problem with interfacing
> Microsoft and Linux.
>
> The Department has a colour printer, a HP 5. This is connected
> to a PC running Windows. The PC is the only contact with the
> printer.
>
> I have a PostScript file on a floppy.
>
> I'd like to send it for printing, but no-one can tell me how
> this can be done. In the normal turn of events, where I had the
> file on the mainframe, I'd use the Unix command lpr. However
> in this case I have to load the file to the PC.
Assuming that the printer is shared, you can share a second
instance of that printer with the POSTSCRIPT driver of it.
On the linux box you install an instance of the printer
as a "Windows SMB share". You must give the host ip,
user, password and share name and you can print to it.....
jobst
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