Re: Printing files through network
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 01:54:57PM -0500, Oleksandr Moskalenko wrote:
| * dman (dsh8290@rit.edu) wrote:
| > On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 12:53:45PM -0400, Steve Dondley wrote:
| > | Hi.
| > |
| > | I've got a Linksys 4 port router which is serving my Linux box and a Win98
| > | machine. My printer is connected to the Win98 machine. Is it possible to
| > | share the printer through the network so that the Linux box can print
| > | documents to the printer connected to the Win98 machine? What do I have to
| > | do to make it happen?
| >
| > On win98 share the printer (use the clicky-gui stuff).
| >
| > On Linux install the samba package and use the 'smbprint' program to
| > submit print jobs. smbprint can be integrated into various print
| > spoolers such as CUPS.
|
| Has anyone figured out how to use it with anything, but CUPS? I have
| an old laptop and it hurts to see CUPS taking 4-5Mb of RAM and not
| doing anything most of the time.
I don't know. When I was RTFM-ing to pick a spooler I remember that
lp/lpr can have certain commands run on the job before it is printed.
What if you made smbprint a prefilter, then made /dev/null the printer
device? What about pdq? I think pdq lets one specify various output
methods.
-D
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