RE: Drowning in information

["Barry deFreese" <bdefreese cox net>]

>The setup:
>   Two machines connecting to the internet via a Linksys ethernet router --
>  One machine is running W-2000 pro, the other RH7.2.  The 2000 machine has
a
>Lexmark printer/scanner/fax hooked up to it & my desire is to be able to
>access this device from the Linux box.
>
>So far all of the printed material I've seen (there has been a tremendous
>amount) is directing me to set the Linux box up as server and let the 2000
>box go through the server to get to the printer.  Due to space
considerations
>and physical limitations I need to maintain the current configuration.
>
>The Question:
>  How can I set these machines up (on a peer-to-peer network?) so that the
>Linux box is able to use the printer?  Directions to a resourse are fine if
>the process is cumbersome.

There are several ways around this.  You could install the Samba smbclient
and attach to the printer as a windows share, or you could use lpr/lpd to
pass the print job to the Win2k box.

Barry deFreese
Newbie
Debian "Woody" - PowerPC
Debian "Woody" - x86
RedHat 7.2 "Enigma"



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