Re: Samba advice

[Mauricio Silveira <msilveira@linuxbr.com>]

BTW....


I encourage everyone to use cups as the printing method for samba, a 
cups implementation is very much more functional than an old LPR based 
method under samba.


Mauricio Silveira
FSN do Brasil

Chris DiTrani wrote:

>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Tony Gogoi" <tgogoi@cse.Buffalo.EDU>
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>>>that's not how printing works.
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>>>The desktop, no matter what OS, uses drivers to transform print into
>>>language that the printer understands.  Print servers merely offer the
>>>printers as a share for spooling and pass the data off to the printer.
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>>So, if the printer driver is installed on a Linux print server and a
>>windows client wants to print a colorful word document, there shouldn't be
>>any problems as the windows client sends the data to be printed in a
>>format the linux printer driver understands ??????
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>The the linux print server in this mode is just a pass-thru to the printer,
>providing queueing and not much more. You can almost think of the linux
>print server as part of the cable between the windows boxes and the printer.
>The linux print server doesn't really care what printer it's connected to -
>it's just passing data through from a windows box that used the correct
>printer-specific driver to format the data.
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>You can install the windows driver for you printer on the linux server and
>samba will allow users on windows boxes to load it when they connect to the
>shared printer, but linux isn't using that driver to talk to the printer.
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