[H-GEN] Printer Support

[Martin Pool]

(Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs Martin Pool <martin.pool at mincom.com>)



> Luke Grant wrote:
> 
> Hey ppl,
> 
> Well after many many many many crashes i have finaly convinced the
> boss to kill the NT server and use samba for the NT network
> services....YAYAY!!!

:-)
 
> Just having one little problem though.....we have a network laser
> printer (HP Laserjet-5m) and i havn't got even the foggiest idea as to
> how i can set it up under linux so that samba can access it and all
> the win95 machines can print through it.

Configure a remote lpd queue for it (RTFM and/or use the RH printertool)
on the linux box, using the printer's IP address as the hostname and the
default queue name.  Then configure that lpd queue into samba.  You can
also insert a printfilter if you like.

Have fun.

-- 
Martin Pool

I've taken a vow of poverty. To annoy me, send money.
				-- Mark Mac Namara

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