[Samba] Samba and TCP printing ports

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Tue Feb 3 03:11:32 GMT 2004


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Jason Gray wrote:
| I've read in the documentation that Samba does not use ports
| like Win2k.  So how does Samba know where to find a network
| printer if it has it's own IP address (stand-alone printer)?

Samba is a spooliong system that hands the job off
to the underlying printing system.  It's the printing
system's (e.g. lpd) to know how to contact the printer.





cheers, jerry
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