[Samba] Doubts about sharing a winprinter

[Alfonso A.]

I know that my printer is compatible with the HP Laserjet II printer, which is PCL. The only thing I want to do is to send jobs to the other machine from my Debian system, so they can be automatically printed in the Windows machine. How can I do it?

Thanks

On Sat, 24 May 2003 19:57:02 +0200
"Kurt Pfeifle" <kpfeifle at danka.de> wrote:

> Alfonso A. webmaster at open-code.net
> 
> > Sat May 24 19:18:24 GMT 2003
> > 
> > 
> > Hi there,
> > 
> > I own a domestic lan with two computers, mine and my mother's one. 
>  > Mine is called GREENDEMON and the other one is called BLUEDEMON and
>  > they both are configured to run on the REDLOCAL workgroup. I've Debian
>  > Woody running on GREENDEMON and Windows 98 running on BLUDEMON, with
>  > an attached Nec Silentwriter Superscript 610 printer. This printer
>  > is only compatible with Windows 9x systems,
> 
> If that is true, you can't print from Linux, unfortunately, even if
> you hook the printer to the Win98 box. Win 98 won't convert the data
> automatically for you.
> 
> Check at http://www.linuxprinting.org/printer_list.cgi if that printer
> really is a GDI/Winprinter.
> 
> In that case you could only do one thing. Transfer the file to the
> Win98 box (using Samba), in a format that can be read on Win98 (possibly
> PDF). Then print it using the Win98 driver (possibly from Acrobat Reader)
> 
> > and I want to set up 
>  > samba so I can print jobs from my computer (GREENDEMON). The printer
>  > is shared in the Windows 98 System. Here it is a little description
> > 
> > GREENDEMON - IP 192.168.1.2   O.S. Debian
> > BLUEDEMON - IP 192.168.1.3  O.S. Windows 98 with a Nec Silenwriter Superscript 610
> > 
> > How can I print jobs from GREENDEMON using the shared printer? I've 
>  > set up Debian quite good, so the only thing I really need is to use the printers.
> > 
> > Any replies could help. Thank you very much.
> > 
> > P.S. Sorry if my English isn't quite good, but I'm from Spain :-)
> 
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