* dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 01:54:57PM -0500, Oleksandr Moskalenko wrote:
> | * dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> | > On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 12:53:45PM -0400, Steve Dondley wrote:
> | > | Hi.
> | > |
> | > | I've got a Linksys 4 port router which is serving my Linux box and a
> Win98
> | > | machine. My printer is connected to the Win98 machine. Is it possible
> to
> | > | share the printer through the network so that the Linux box can print
> | > | documents to the printer connected to the Win98 machine? What do I
> have to
> | > | do to make it happen?
> | >
> | > On win98 share the printer (use the clicky-gui stuff).
> | >
> | > On Linux install the samba package and use the 'smbprint' program to
> | > submit print jobs. smbprint can be integrated into various print
> | > spoolers such as CUPS.
> |
> | Has anyone figured out how to use it with anything, but CUPS? I have
> | an old laptop and it hurts to see CUPS taking 4-5Mb of RAM and not
> | doing anything most of the time.
>
> I don't know. When I was RTFM-ing to pick a spooler I remember that
> lp/lpr can have certain commands run on the job before it is printed.
> What if you made smbprint a prefilter, then made /dev/null the printer
> device? What about pdq? I think pdq lets one specify various output
> methods.
>
> -D
I've experimented with a samba interface for xpdq that I found on
somebody's website, but as the person warned it just failed silently
on me and I don't know enough to program in some debugging.
Alex.
