Windoze to Linux printer sharing?

[Chuk Goodin]

On 4/13/05, Tony Arnold <tony.arnold at manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> Chuk,
> 
> On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 09:11 -0700, Chuk Goodin wrote:
> > Do you mean running cups on the Windows box? Because if not, you can
> > already do that.
> 
> Yes, that was my idea. Why, you may ask? I have a system that acts as a
> print server for the rest of the family's computers (4 other machines in
> total). The system is used as my desk top mainly, but the rest of the
> family also use it. I like to run Linux on it, the rest of the gang like
> to run Windows. What I would like is to be able to print from the other
> machines to my server regardless of whether I'm running Linux or
> Windows, preferably using the same print queues at the client end.


Okay, that's not the same as what we do -- we have a Linux machine and two 
Windows boxen, with most of the printers hooked up to the main Windows box. 
We can print from any of them, though, just using cups and samba. Have you 
tried that? It almost worked out of the box for me.

> The real long term answer is to convert the rest of the family to use
> Linux, but that really would be a major project:-)
> 

Yeah, that'd probably be doing it the hard way. :-)

-- 
chuk
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