Re: Printing on Win2K printer From Debian
on Mon, May 26, 2003 at 03:13:00PM +0100, Alan Chandler (alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk) wrote:
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> On Monday 26 May 2003 1:15 pm, Sharninder Singh-662 wrote:
> > hi,
> > i have a win2k box with adobe's pdf printer. Now i want to print to this
> > printer from my debian box. samba is working on the debian box. do i need
> > to use samba ?
> > sharninder
> > don't tell me to use ghostscript to output pdf files..i want to use the pdf
> > printer on the windows box only.
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> I am using CUPS on my debian network (server+workstation) and have a printer
> (Brother HL1250) shared on a win98 box. I just created a cups printer with
> uri smb://pooh/laser (pooh is the machine on the network, laser is the share
> name).
I'll second the CUPS recommendation. Configuration is generally
trivial, through the web-based admin dialogs (check /usr/share/doc/cup*
for the port).
Peace.
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