Printing Problem

[Art Alexion]

On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 3:16 PM, Bruce Marshall <bmarsh at bmarsh.com> wrote:
On Thursday 02 October 2008, Art Alexion wrote:>> > Why would smb
(Samba) have anything to with a totally Linux printing
>> > environment?
>>
>> Isn't this an SMB printer?
>
> Not that I am aware of....   He's trying to get CUPS to work in an all Linux
> environment.
>
> Maybe I missed something.   And I am assuming you are saying it is a local
> printer connected to a Windows machine.   Don't think that's the case.
>

No.  He's saying that it is on some sort of print server, though I
didn't catch any details about it.  He also is saying that his windows
box can access it.  He gave us an IP address in the 192.168.1.x range,
but I don't know if that is the server appliance or the windows
machine that hosts the drivers.

On our heterogeneous environment, we have a number of laser printers
with built in ethernet connections and large lineprinters with
parallel connectors plugged into print server appliances.  The windows
computers in the environment connect through a windows server that
hosts the drivers.  My linux boxes connect either through that same
server via smbprint, or directly to the printer or print server IPs
via port 9100.  But in order for me to connect via the windows server,
I need smbclient installed.

Among Linux distributions I have used, *ubuntu seems to handle
printing better than most, but for a windows print server, you need
smbclient installed.

Last, not knowing what the server appliance he is using is and how it
works, I think we might assume that it may have some windows-only
limitations.



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