Printing over samba

Setup:

I have a LAN connecting my Linux box and a Windows computer.
The Windows computer has a printer that is not supported by Linux.
Is it possible to print to it over Samba?

(That is, does going over samba make Windows supply the device driver,
or is there a way I can share a dummy postscript printer which will
redirect the output appropriately?)

Mark Tilford wrote:

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> Setup:
>
> I have a LAN connecting my Linux box and a Windows computer.
> The Windows computer has a printer that is not supported by Linux.
> Is it possible to print to it over Samba?
>
> (That is, does going over samba make Windows supply the device driver,
> or is there a way I can share a dummy postscript printer which will
> redirect the output appropriately?)

It works the other way around. Using a native driver on the Linux server
side and a generic Postscript driver on the Windows side, so i don't see
why not. Cups doesn't seems to care which type of data it sends to the
printer.

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Lasse Jensen [fafler at g mail dot com]
Linux, the choice of a GNU generation.

On 2007-01-23, Lasse Jensen <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
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>
> Mark Tilford wrote:
>
>>
>> Setup:
>>
>> I have a LAN connecting my Linux box and a Windows computer.
>> The Windows computer has a printer that is not supported by Linux.
>> Is it possible to print to it over Samba?
>>
>> (That is, does going over samba make Windows supply the device driver,
>> or is there a way I can share a dummy postscript printer which will
>> redirect the output appropriately?)
>
> It works the other way around. Using a native driver on the Linux server
> side and a generic Postscript driver on the Windows side, so i don't see
> why not. Cups doesn't seems to care which type of data it sends to the
> printer.
>

Never mind, found it at
http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/O...dows_server.3F

Thanks again.

On 2007-01-23, Lasse Jensen <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>
> Mark Tilford wrote:
>
>>
>> Setup:
>>
>> I have a LAN connecting my Linux box and a Windows computer.
>> The Windows computer has a printer that is not supported by Linux.
>> Is it possible to print to it over Samba?
>>
>> (That is, does going over samba make Windows supply the device driver,
>> or is there a way I can share a dummy postscript printer which will
>> redirect the output appropriately?)
>
> It works the other way around. Using a native driver on the Linux server
> side and a generic Postscript driver on the Windows side, so i don't see
> why not. Cups doesn't seems to care which type of data it sends to the
> printer.
>

Good. Is there any documentation about how to do that? (Where would I
get the Windows postscript driver?)

On Tuesday 23 January 2007 01:16, Mark Tilford wrote:

> I have a LAN connecting my Linux box and a Windows computer.
> The Windows computer has a printer that is not supported by Linux.
> Is it possible to print to it over Samba?
>
> (That is, does going over samba make Windows supply the device driver,
> or is there a way I can share a dummy postscript printer which will
> redirect the output appropriately?)

Depends on your distro. I'm using SUSE, with CUPS.

In that case, search your Windows machine for the PPD file of that
printer.
Then install the printer in CUPS, using the samba server and queue name as
destination. For the driver (filter) just give it the PPD file).
Works pretty well, in most cases. (not all)


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