Re: [SLUG] Linux printing

From: Eben King (eben1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Wed Sep 10 2003 - 23:44:53 EDT


On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, William Lindfors wrote:

> Does anyone know how to print to a network printer thru linux. Trying to
> print from my linux laptop to a shared printer in a windows environment. What
> would I use? I did not see any option to create a network printer like you
> can with windows.

I believe you can smbmount the printer as if it were a shared disk, and cp
printer-formatted files into it. CUPS also can define a particular
printer as shared by SMB.

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