Re: CUPS does not have samba support.

[Jason Boxman <jasonb@edseek.com>]

On Wednesday 03 October 2001 12:14 am, dman wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 11:39:00PM -0400, igor@ta2000.dyndns.org wrote:
> | I have cupsys  version 1.1.10-3 installed.
> | Now, when I type:
> | debian:~# lpinfo -v
> | network socket
> | network http
> | network ipp
> | network lpd
> | serial serial:/dev/ttyS0?baud=115200
> | serial serial:/dev/ttyS1?baud=115200
> | serial serial:/dev/ttyS2?baud=115200
> | serial serial:/dev/ttyS3?baud=115200
> |
> | I think there is no samba support inside the cups server.
> | Any ideas ? I have to use samba protocal to communicate with Win9X
> | printer, correct ?
>
> Yes, but CUPS works great.  It handles samba by delegating the real
> work to smbspool.  You need to install the 'smbclient' package too (it
> owns /usr/lib/cups/backend/smb, which is what cups uses for printing
> over samba)

That's neat.  I didn't know you could do that.

I stand corrected.

> HTH,
> -D