RE: How Windows Printing to Printer on Linux Box?

Peter Schuller (scode_ufp@usa.net)
Mon, 26 Oct 1998 15:48:52 +0100 (CET)


> I now configurate a SMB Server on Linux Box.
> and the printer work well on Linux ( lpr worked, but latence is too
> long )
> but I cannot print it from windows system , why??

The problem is that Windows does not give your Linux box postscript files, it
gives it binary stuff readu to feed to the printer. The way I solved it was to
set up two district logical printers, both connected to the same port.

lp, my "local" filter, uses the standard postscript->ljet4 method, while lp0,
the one used by Windows machines (the same physical printer), just feeds the
data to the printer.

/ Peter Schuller
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