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-The Linux Print2Win mini-HOWTO
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-!!!The Linux Print2Win mini-HOWTO
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-!!Marcelo Pereira da Silva, marcelo@pereira.comv1.1, Jan 2002
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-''This howto contains the general configuration to get linux printing to a
-Windows print share.''
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-!!1. Introdution
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-!!2. Server (Windows)
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-!!3. Client (Linux)
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-*3.1 Standard lpr
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-!!4. /etc/printcap TIPS
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-!!5. License
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-!!6. Credits
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-!!1. Introdution
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-As we want the print service running, let set up all the environment step
-by step, to avoid mistakes or bad configurations.
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-First, set up the server, so when you have the server running, go to the
-clients and configure them.
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-!!2. Server (Windows)
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-There is no special rules when configurating the server. Just install the
-printer driver in the Windows server, test it to certificate the printer
-is running properly, so share the printer.
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-!!3. Client (Linux)
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-The setup of the client is almost the same when you are setting up the
-printcap to print linux to linux, with some changes.
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-!!3.1 Standard lpr
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-The simplest way to do it is adding an entry in /etc/printcap.
-As a quick example, the entry for a generic matricial printer would be:
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-# EPSON LX300
-epson:\
-:sd=/var/spool/lpd/epson:\
-:mx#:\
-:sh:\
-:if=/var/spool/lpd/epson/filter:\
-:lp=/dev/null:
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-* Make sure you are using the correct filter, or the right generic one.
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-Be sure you have created the directory /var/spool/lpd/epson,
-and the users you wish to use the printer have the right access to this.
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-For example, let the Windows Print Server be called by meriadoc,
-it IP=192.168.1.49 and the printer (at Windows) are shared as
-epsonLX.
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-So, you have to configure /var/spool/lpd/epson/.config like this:
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-share='\\meriadoc\epsonLX'
-hostip=192.168.1.49
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-Where:
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-*share='\\windows-print-server-name\print-share-name'
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-*hostip=windows-print-server-IP
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-Once your /etc/printcap is configured, you have to enable the
-print share:
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-[localhost
]$ lpc up epson
-[[localhost]$ lpc enable epson
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-If everything is ok, you can send jobs to the queue:
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-[[localhost]$ lpr -Pepson <file>
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-!!4. /etc/printcap TIPS
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-I have used the entry below in the first example, but this is not a
-particularly good idea:
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-...
-:lp=/dev/null:\
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-Because lpr does an `exclusive' open on the file you specify as lp=.
-It does this in order to prevent multiple processes from trying to
-print to the dame printer at the same time.
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-The side effect of this is that in your case, eng and colour can't print at
-the same time, (usually more or less transparent since they probably print
-quickly and since they queue you probably don't notice) but any other process
-that tries to write to /dev/null will break!
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-On a single user system, probably not a big problem. I have a system with
-over 50 printers. It would be a problem there.
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-The solution is to create a dummy printer for each. Eg: touch /dev/eng.
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-[[localhost]$ touch /dev/eng
-[[localhost]$ touch /dev/colour
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-!!5. License
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-This document, Print2Win-HOWTO,
-is copyrighted (c) 2001-2002 by Marcelo Pereira da Silva.
-Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
-document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License,
-Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software
-Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts,
-and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license
-is available at
-http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html.
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-!!6. Credits
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-Thanks to all those who sent opinions about this document, to everybody
-who told me some printing tips, to Rick Bressler, and a special thanks
-to Harish Pillay, whose I don't know, but wrote the first version of
-this document
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