Re: How to print on shared Windows printers from debian?

[Ramin Motakef <ramin@uni-oldenburg.de>]

Wojciech Zabolotny <wzab@ise.pw.edu.pl> writes:

> Hi All!
> 
> Is there any way to print from debian on a printer connected to the
> Winblows machine on the same LAN?
> I found information about smbprint in SMB-HOWTO.pz, but there is no such
> utility in my Debian 2.1 box. :-(
> I have installed both samba & smbfs.
> 
> --
> 			What to do?
> 			Wojtek Zabolotny
> 			wzab@ise.pw.edu.pl
>  

If the Winblows machine is an NT Box (Server?) you can install "TCP/IP
Printservice"  and use this printer like a printer one a unix
printserver (Printing Howto).

If it is Win9x you need the smbclient program (from
smbclient_XXX.deb):

$ smbclient //server/printer 
> print myfile

you can use the example script in /usr/doc/samba-doc/examples/printing
to automate printing.

Ramin