[svlug] printing to unsupported printers via win shares [Follow-up]

[James Todd]

I was just playing with Samba and Cups this weekend. Attahced are my
conf files. In addition, I enabled raw support in the Cups mime.convs
and mime.types.

I'm now facing troubles accessing these services vie 802.11g but that
is likely another issue all together.

hth,

- james

Akbar Ahmed wrote:
> --- Case Jones <philipj at interchange.ubc.ca> wrote:
> 
>>On Sat, 6 Sep 2003 10:46:39 -0700 (PDT)
>>Akbar Ahmed <akbar_svlug at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> <snip>
> 
>>>Does this mean that I can use a printer that is
>>
>>not
>>
>>>supported in Linux by doing the following:
>>>1. connect the printer to a windows system
>>>2. install the print driver in windows
>>>3. share the printer via windows networking (SMB)
>>>4. on Linux, configure a remote printer that can
>>
>>be
>>
>>>accessed via SMB
>>>
>>>Will this work?
> 
>  
> 
>>Roughly, yes.. I've seen that kind of setup, working
>>quite well.
> 
> 
> Could you explain how it was done. I read too many
> pages of MS printing docs today and my
> interpretatation was that in a N/W'd printing setup
> Windows makes sure that some of the printing is done
> by the client and then the server takes over for EMF
> files. 
> 
> For Linux clients it sounded like I have to filter the
> data using the appropriate driver and then send the
> data to the windows print server via the print server
> service and a RAW connection.
> 
> If you have any pointers on how to do this I would be
> extremely grateful as I'm stuck at the moment.
> 
> Thanks,
> Akbar
> 
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