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Re: Printing to Windows



On  0, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shalehperry@attbi.com> wrote:
> 
> On 19-Apr-2002 Raffaele Sandrini wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > Wich print system would you suggest me to print to a Windows machine from my 
> > Debian system. Wich one is the simpliest or the one with the most features? 
> >:-)
> > 
> 
> if I understand you right you have a printer connected to a Windows machine
> physically (printer cable, USB, etc) and want to print to that printer from
> Linux.  Correct?  If so you need at a minimum samba.  This lets Linux talk to
> Windows and get shared components.  After that is configured you can use any
> standard Linux print controller -> lpr, lprng, cups, whatever.

Mmmmm, cups is good.  Even prints to my netware printers.

Tom
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