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Special Forums IP Networking Printer Sharing on a Mixed(Windows/Linux) Home Network Post 92578 by Just Ice on Monday 12th of December 2005 11:27:26 PM
Old 12-13-2005
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Originally Posted by Annatar
An odd point, when I have loaded SMB4K, an graphic Internet file transfer utility on the Linux machine, I can “see” the shared printer along with the shared file directories on the Windows machine.
samba lets unix share a filesystem in a manner that windows can use it ... what you're seeing is a share that linux sees ... however, afaik samba doesn't do anything for the printing part ...


if there was a way to get your printer it's own ip address on the network like an ip printer, you would have an easier time setting this up ...

i think your best bet is to get an add-on print server to get your printer on the network without needing to attach to a computer (i've seen a linksys version) ... then you could just give the printer an ip address and all the boxes on your network can use it ... setup as regular ip printer on windows box through tcpip port and as regular print server on linux/*nix side ... good luck!
 

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