Is Samba the solution for this ?

Hi

The place where I work has a network of Sun workstations and printers. I
think that the printer network is run on a Windows LPD server (strange are
the ways of some admins), accessible as yet only from the workstations. For
instance, lpstat on one of those workstations yields :

bash-2.04$ lpstat color

Windows 2000 LPD Server
Printer \\<an ip address>\color

Owner Status Jobname Job-Id Size Pages Priority
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

The organization has a policy of permitting a certain page quota to save
resources. So, whenever I need to print something, I have to transfer files
from my networked laptop to one of these workstations, issue an lp process
from there, etc. I am not exactly thrilled with this way of doing things.

Is there a way to authenticate to this LPD server directly and then issue
print jobs ? That way, the quota can presumably still be enforced without
me having to do sftp's each time I need to print something.

I am utterly new to Samba, but I have read (vaguely) that it can be used to
print to windows printers. Is that true, and if so, can there be some ssh
authentication encapsulated in a direct print request ?

My OS is Debian Sarge, kernel 2.4.26 (custom).

Thanks,

MS