samba 2.2 == all printers supported? (hp 3150?)

[Gerald Carter]

On Tue, 08 May 2001 18:36:56 Justin wrote:
>
> 
> In the process of ridding the office of all Windoze 
> machines, I have been charged with hooking our HP 
> LaserJet 3150 printer/scanner/copier up to a linux box 
> and using that machine as our print server.
> 
> Linuxprinting.org says that the 3150 is not supported 
> by linux, and I believe them after sending many print 
> jobs without even a beep from the printer.
> 
> However, I heard from a friend that the newest version
> of Samba supports win printers with the new print 
> driver code.  
> 

Samba 2.2. only provides a spooling system for clients 
and makes it possible to download printer driver on 
demand to clients. So I am not sure that it will help you 
in the case.  You need to be able to send jobs to the printer 
via the underlying printing system (i.e. lpr) before Samba can.

See the printing section of smb.conf and the 'print command'
parameter in particular.



Cheers, jerry
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