Re: Printer sharing
iquest <iquest@gte.net> writes:
> Most of you suggested me to use Samba. I went ahead and install the
> Samba package. I read some of the document that came with the package
>
> and I still do not quite get to do what I want. If anyone of you do
> not
> mind, could you send me a step by step procedure :) or could someone
> point me to the doc that could lead me to do this?
There's more documentation in /usr/doc/HOWTO/SMB-HOWTO.gz.
> 1.) I've a HP 6MP laser printer connect to my Linux box. I'd like
> to allow other PC (running Windows/NT) to print thing to it.
Set up /etc/smb.conf starting from the example (and see "man
smb.conf"). You might want to set up the printer explicitly. Set
"load printers = no", then something like:
[hp]
comment = HP 6MP
writable = no
path = /tmp
public = yes
printer = hp
printable = yes
> 2.) How about the reverse, If I have the printer connected to the
> Windows/NT server PC, how would my Linux box print thing to it?
You can do some fiddling with something like
/usr/doc/samba/examples/printing/smbprint to do this.
>
> After installed the Samba, I ran this command:
> smbstatus
> and I got:
> Couldn't open status file /var/lock/samba/STATUS..LCK
This will get fixed after you actually do something with Samba from
NT. The programs are automatically started when you need them.
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