On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 18:34, fedora-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 18:12:45 -0400 > From: "Brion Swanson" <brions@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: Tackling a shared USB printer (linux -> WXP) > To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Message-ID: <000701c43224$ee848450$650b000a@lightyear> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > It seems to me that the printer is hooked up to a single machine - i.e. > presumably a machine that only runs one operating system at a time - or it's > hooked up to a hardware print server. In either case, the interface through > which the printer receives its data should be of one type. In other words, > when I - as the software printing driver - talk to the physical printer, I > use only one language to talk to that printer -- the most appropriate common > language. All other devices that want to talk through the printer must go > through the printer driver -- a single printer driver. > > If I set up a printer in Windows and shared it, I don't believe I'd need to > set up multiple versions of the same printer, one for each different OS that > uses it. Windows would configure one printer, with one driver (the Canon > driver in my case) and then other computers would talk to Windows to print, > not to the printer directly. In which case, I only need the driver that > works with windows to be loaded and possibly some translation software to > convert, say, a stream of bytes into something the printer will understand. > > I agree it's logical to have one queue for each device that needs a > different driver, but managing 'n' number of queues for a single printer > because I have 'n' number of different OSes, each of which talk to the > printer in a different language is, if not difficult at least annoying. > > I want to set up the printer locally in linux, then tell the rest of the > world, "Hey! I have a printer you can use if you want to talk to it through > me!" and have that be it. It doesn't seem like such a difficult task. > Other operating systems do it - why not this one? > > Sorry this turned into a little rant, but it just bugs me that this > "thousand-queue" solution is the best thing linux has to offer when sharing > a USB printer with other operating systems. > > Brion Brion: I have a Linux system that has a HP 1200 coonected through a USB and share that with 4 Windoze machines. I am using Samba and Cups without any problems. I also use my Linux box as a file server without any problems. There are some excellent Howto's on Samba and Cups Samba Howto docs: http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/ CUPS Howto docs: http://www.cups.org/documentation.php http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/smeserver/contribs/rvandenaker/beta/e-smith-cups/documentation/
