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[Michael E Uhl]

I have to throw in a second vote for CUPS (http://www.cups.org).  If you
want to share printers between linux machines or share a printer
connected to a linux machine with Windows (XP) clients, CUPS works very
well.

I have a printer connected to one of my linux boxes that I wanted to
share with my wife's XP machine.  At first I tried using samba.  It
wasn't difficult to set up, but it and Windows XP didn't get along well
with regard to printing.  So, I tried CUPS... using it's internet
printing protocol support, printing from Windows works like a dream. 
Plus, setting up my other linux machine to use that same printer was
pretty easy.  There are some gui tools out there to help set up the
printers: gnome-cups-manager (which for Debian Linux is found in the
gnome-cups-manager package).

-michael


On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 11:12, John Harrold wrote:
> Sometime in August Ritchie, Lauren assaulted the keyboard and produced:
> 
> | 
> | hello,
> | 
> | Ok i have another question, i have samba 3.0.4 installed on my RedHat 9.0
> | pc, and now i am to put smbclient on it. The reason for this smbclient is:
> | 1) so the linux pcs can access the companys shared drives, which has
> | databases, files, etc.they would need to look at and
> 
> I would recommend checking out the smb howto, specifically:
> 
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/SMB-HOWTO-8.html
> 
> the following seems to work well for me:
> 
> mount -t smbfs -o username=youruser,password=yourpass //server/share /mnt/tmp/
> 
> | 2) to add printers to the linux machines, so printing can be possible from
> | the linux pcs
> 
> If the printers are available on the network, it might be easier to get
> cups or something setup for printing. 
-- 
Michael Edward Uhl
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