Re: printing

[Ken Gillett <ken ukgb net>]

On 27 Feb 2004, at 21:14, Michael Gargiullo wrote:

> Ken,
>
> 	Have you been able to print from your RH8 box?   If so just share it
> via Samba.

I'm right at the beginning here. Currently there's no printer set up at 
all, so I cannot print from the RH machine itself, so that's the first 
step, although to be honest I don't think I need to actually print 
locally, just share the printer(s) on the network.

I guess the question is would I be better off going with CUPS, or 
should I stick to LPR?

> Snippets from my smb.conf
>
>         printcap name = /etc/printcap
>         load printers = yes
>         printing = cups
>
> [printers]
>         comment = All Printers
>         path = /var/spool/samba
>         browseable = no
> # Set public = yes to allow user 'guest account' to print
>         printable = yes
>
>
> There's a good book too if your a windows admin that is moving to
> linux.  I think it's called the Windows administrator's guide to samba
> or something close to that.
>
> It walks you through setting up shares and printers using webmin, and
> swat.
>
> Either way, if you can print from your RH8 machine, your half way 
> there.
>
> On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 15:56, Ken Gillett wrote:
> > A very simple question about printing, which is one thing I've never
> > had to set up before.
> >
> > I want to offer print services to Windows and Mac (OSX) clients to a 
> > RH
> > 8 server. Mainly I want to share an HP DeskJet 690c and I'm having
> > trouble figuring out the best method. I'm running SAMBA and Netatalk
> > and there's always LPR. But should I run CUPS and how does that
> > integrate into SAMBA and Netatalk?
> >
> > I'm connecting the Deskjet via a parallel to USB converter and it 
> > seems
> > to be being seen, so it's a question of drivers. Will the recommended
> > HPIJS handle such a USB-parallel conversion?
> >
> > Any understandable HOWTOs recommended?
> >
> >
> >
> > Ken  G i l l e t t
> >
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