[Sussex] Samba - I don't quite follow.

John D. john at johnsemail.eclipse.co.uk
Mon Feb 21 09:47:53 UTC 2005


Paul Turner wrote:

> I've done a similar set up at home (although not with Gentoo).  You 
> don't SAMBA to get the printing working, just CUPS.  I  had to install 
> the gimp print postsript drivers which allowed me to use the drivers 
> from linux printing, but I set up a "RAW" driver for windows printing, 
> which uses the normal windows print driver.  SAMBS printing just gives 
> you a nice browsable list of network printers which is nice, but I 
> haven't set it up yet.
>
> I can't remember more details I'm afraid.  I'll try and have a look at 
> my setup tonight.  You should find some stuff on the web.

I'd initially thought that I'd be best placed to use the gentoo samba 
howto, which may not be the best suggestion (though there docs are 
normally pretty good). I'll go and look at the web stuff.

Thanks Paul.

regards

John D.





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