Re: Printing files through network

[Oleksandr Moskalenko <malex@purdue.edu>]

* dman (dsh8290@rit.edu) wrote:
> 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

  I've experimented with a samba interface for xpdq that I found on
  somebody's website, but as the person warned it just failed silently
  on me and I don't know enough to program in some debugging.
   
    Alex.