Printing to printer on Windoze machine

[karlp at ourldsfamily.com]

On Sat, March 25, 2006 11:52 pm, Harold Hallikainen said:
>>>
>>>
>> Hi Harold
>>
>> I found a TCP/IP client for Win98 that allows printing to an LPR/LPD
>> printer's IP address. I don't know if that will help, but if so, let me
>> know and I could email it to you privately.
>>
>> Karl
>>
>
>
> Thanks! I think that's the "wrong end" of the system. As I understand it,
> the client would let the Win98 machine print to an IPP printer. I'd like
> something (a server?) that allows a printer on the Windows machine to be
> printed to by other IPP clients on the network (or get my smb printing to
> work!).
>
> Thanks for the offer!
>
> Harold

Drat. Okay, I use SMB/Samba printing to win98 boxes all the time. The
'trick' is to point the Linux print queue to //host/sharname in the first
setup step.
That was an annoying 'undocumented feature' of the setup that took me a
while to figure out.

Karl

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