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| Newer page: | version 21 | Last edited on Thursday, January 26, 2006 9:19:46 pm | by AriSovijarvi | Revert |
| Older page: | version 18 | Last edited on Sunday, August 28, 2005 9:31:13 pm | by JohnMcPherson | Revert |
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!!!Neat things you can do with samba and printing
* For a way to get samba to print to a pdf then email you the result, see [SambaPDFPrinter]
+* To see what resources are available in your network, on Linux one can use smbtree
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!!! Setting up samba and [CUPS]
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!!! Linux clients printing to Windows XP machine
This can probably be done via some [GUI] tool, but I only tried via the CommandLine.
1) Make sure the file <tt>/usr/lib/cups/backend/smb</tt> exists.
-If not, do </
tt> ln -s / ln -s /usr/bin/smbspool /usr/lib/cups/backend/smb</tt>
+If not, do <tt>ln -s / ln -s /usr/bin/smbspool /usr/lib/cups/backend/smb</tt>
2) get the right driver. For me, the Epson 460 Colour printer that is attached to the WinXP machine needs the escp2-460.ppd file in the cupsys-driver-gimpprint-data Debian package. I don't know if I really need this, or if cups/winxp is smart enough to convert arbitrary print data to the correct format.
-3) I created the print queue via <tt>lpadmin -p Shared_Epson smb://ip.ad.dre.ss/shared_name -P esdp2-460.ppd</tt>
+3) I created the print queue via <tt>lpadmin -p Shared_Epson -v
smb://ip.ad.dre.ss/shared_name -P esdp2-460.ppd</tt>
4) Restart cups, and manually enable the queue:
<tt>cupsenable Shared_Epson</tt>
