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Re: Best Way to Share Printers?



On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 10:40:25 -0400, Thomas H. George
<xyz@spininternet.com> wrote:
> I have a LAN connecting three Debian systems.  Until now there has never
> been a need to share printers as pre-LAN each system had its own printer.
> 
> Now one printer has died and we wish to share.  I have references on
> Samba and Swat but they refer to sharing among Windows and NT systems.
> Is there a better alternative for an all Debian LAN?

In a word, CUPS.

There's a useful mini-howto at

http://mumford1.dyndns.org/~bs7452/linuxhelp/cups.html

Patrick



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