[Gllug] samba printers

[Mark Hemment]

On Mon, 12 Nov 2001 tet at accucard.com wrote:

>
> >Is it possible to host a networked printer on a Linux box? We have a
> >massive HP4100DLK or something with its own ethernet port. I'd rather not
> >hook it up to the par port. Looking thru howto/faqs this seems like a
> >no-go.
> >
> >If not then I'll just leave it hosted on the Windows box :-/
>
> Your quesiton doesn't make sense. If it's a networked printer, then by
> definition, it's not hosted on any box. Just plug it in, set the IP
> address and go (most come with a build in Unix and SMB print daemons).

  The old grey cells are a bit fadded on this, but didn't HP have their
own network printer protocol?
  A few years back I hacked support for it into UnixWare as some HP
printers didn't have support for the BSD remote printer protocol - it was
an optional (as in pay-for) extra.

Mark


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