Subject: Re: Printer sharing question
From: SF Karel (karelsf@brandeis.edu)
Date: Tue Oct 03 2000 - 20:05:17 EDT
Since no one seems to be giving you a straight answer... I've done this
in the past (win98 -> samba -> lpd -> pap -> ethertalk Apple Laserwriter
Pro 630), it's functional, but it's basically an elaborate hack (in our
case, we used to get spurious syslog errors and extra pages(
1. configure pap to print to the appletalk-only printer.
2. configure lpr or LPRng to pass jobs to pap (lots of messages about
that on linux-atalk or netatalk-admins).
3. configure samba to share your printer defined by LPR or LPRng
4. configure Windows to print to samba, making sure you have the right
postscript drivers.
I seem to recall some messages recently that are germane.
a. pipe the print job to lpr in the /etc/printcap definition
b. there was a post about how to kill the extra page feed at the end
If you can, use LPR from linux to the printer (never had one of those
GCC printers, so I don't know if it'll work), this works better
If you can, install NT. Printing from NT via Appletalk works fine. Just
be sure not to "capture" the printer (and make it disappear from the Chooser)
If you can, put a parallel cable between the windows box and the
printer. The Windows user will be happier.
steven
Steve Freitas wrote:
>
> Here's an odd one. I have these three components:
>
> 1. A Linux box running Netatalk
> 2. An AppleTalk-only Ethernet Postscript printer (GCC Elite 600)
> 3. A Windows box
>
> I'd like to share the AppleTalk-only printer via the Linux box to enable
> the Windows box to print to it. Can somebody give me a quick overview of
> what I'd need to do in order to pull this off?
>
> Steve
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