[Samba] USB printer

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Sat Mar 20 16:11:41 GMT 2004


On Sat, 2004-03-20 at 13:36, Pusher wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Mar 2004 07:07:04 -0700
> Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> > 
> > You must share the printer from Windows XP
> of course, i did it already.
> 
> > 
> > Setup Cups printing to use the
> > smb://NETBIOS_NAME_OF_WINDOWS_XP/PRINT_SHARE
> > 
> > and restart cups
> 
> Cups better then LPR?
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I think the most recent versions are. Depends upon the underlying
system. LPR is a different system...I've sort of forgotten how to make
it work with smb shared printer but if, as you said, "EVERYONE" is
allowed to print on the windows shared printer, samba isn't really
involved in the printing.

Craig



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