From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mauricio Silveira Subject: Re: Samba advice Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 02:04:37 -0300 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <40B42565.6080605@linuxbr.com> References: <40B2944A.5020802@linuxbr.com> <010501c44271$aa5e7030$530a0a0a@rutgersinsurance.com> <0baf01c4429f$06adc020$8401a8c0@monsta> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <0baf01c4429f$06adc020$8401a8c0@monsta> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Chris DiTrani Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org 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" > > > >>>that's not how printing works. >>> >>>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. >>> >>> >>> >>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 ?????? >> >> > > >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. > >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. > >CD > >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > > >