[Samba] Re: Samba bidirectional printing support

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Viktor Remennik wrote:

> No answers so far.. So probably it is impossible to make bidirectional 
> printer connection using samba? One more question - are there another 
> smb implementations for unix-like operating systems?

If the driver is designed to talk directly to the printer over TCP/IP but 
spool through the Samba server, you will be ok.  However, as someone 
already mentioned, if the driver needs to talk to the printer over a local 
port (USB, LPT, etc...) you are out of luck.





cheers, jerry
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