[plug] samba

Raven ian.kent at pobox.com
Fri Jun 16 21:29:54 WST 2000



Mike Holland wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, raven wrote:
>
> > Leon Brooks wrote:
> > > Have you used printtool or any of those handy-dandy utilities to set up
> > > an SMB entry in /etc/printcap?
> >
> > And then only if you have an lpd package on the win95 box!

             ^^^^        ^^^^    ^^^         ^^     ^^^^^

>
>
> Ian,
> how do you mean? Linux can print to win95 (SMB) printer serivces without
> any special support on the win95 box. And its quite separate from samba
> AFAIK.

You can print to Win95 printers if you have an lpd server on the win95 box.
I have not checked into smbprint so I cannot comment on that.

Ian K




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