On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Does one have to install Samba in order to use a printer > attached to a Linux box from a Windows-2000 machine on a LAN? If you want to access the printer through normal Windows printer sharing, I think the answer is yes. > > IIRC, I used to print from the W2k machine under RH-7 or 8 > without using Samba, but this doesn't seem possible under FC-1, > unless I have misunderstood something. > I can access the web through the Linux box from the W2k machine. In Win2k, you can define a printer as using LPD protocol. (Configuration starts by selecting "locally attached printer" in the Wizard, then "create new port" then "custom port". I don't recall the exact steps, though.) On the Linux side, run redhat-config-printer, and select "sharing" from the left-most pulldown menu. Then check "enable LPD protocol". Save everything and restart cupsd. > > -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
