Re: Printing to a WinNT shared printer using LP & SAMBA...
Take a look at Samba. I've been using the debs from Slink (Samba 1.9p10 I
believe) under hamm with no trouble for several weeks. Samba includes the
clients you'll need to access Winblows shares.
-- For accessing just file shares, get the smbmount debs.
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Brant Wells wrote:
> Howdy y'all :)
>
> I've got timidity & the packages installed ( and the MIDI files sound
> good!!). Now... I've one more tiny ( I hope problem...)
>
> A while back, I sent out an e-mail asking how get linux to print to a
> network printer...I never had a chance to get it working... my Linux box
> kept crashing (cause of things I did...) and I had to wait for CD's to
> come in...
>
> I need to know how to setup Linux to print to an nt printer set up to
> share as:
>
> \\dahouse\HPDESKJE
>
> .
> I've got Samba installed & working properly (and the SMBMOUNT), also,
> I've got LPR installed...my /etc/printcap file looks like this:
>
> lp|HPDeskjet:\
> :lp=/dev/null:\
> :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
> :df=/etc/filter.ps:\
> :tf=/etc/filter.pcl:\
> :af=/var/log/lp-acct:\
> :lf=/var/log/lp-errs:\
> :pl#66:\
> :pw#80:\
> :pc#150:\
> :mx#0:\
> :sh /usr/bin/netprint
>
> ************************************
>
> My /usr/bin/netprint script looks like:
>
> smbclient \\\\dahouse\\hpdeskje shadowgate.com -U BW07442 -P -c 'print
> -'
>
> ************************************
> Anybody see anything I can do to help?
>
> Thanks,
> Brant
>
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