[wellylug] printer sharing problem

[Lyndsay Mountfort]

You only need to involve the Linux machine if you want it to control 
queuing. The simplest method of all is as a previous respondent said - 
sending print jobs directly from client machines to the printer via the 
windows printer share on the XP machine that it is connected to. This is 
  exactly what I do at home, and also how I've set up a small satellite 
office (2 users) for my employer. Whether you want to involve the linux 
  box as a print server probably depends on workloads - how often more 
than one client will send large print jobs around the same time, and 
whether it is simple for users to say "hang fire on the printer for a 
while" to their co-workers.

Lyndsay

Colin & Josephine Lewis wrote:
> The printer is on one of the XP PC's, so printing commands will need to 
> route from the originating XP PC through the Linux box and back out to 
> the PC with printer on it.
> 
> Colin
> 
> Nathan Cook wrote:
>> Are you wanting to share the printer from the Windows machine, or attach 
>> it to the Debian server and share it from there?
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>> On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Colin & Josephine Lewis 
>> <cjlewis at slingshot.co.nz <mailto:cjlewis at slingshot.co.nz>> wrote:
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>>     Our church has a wireless network consisting of 4 PC's running XP
>>     connected via a Linux (Debian) server.  One of the XP machines is in the
>>     office and has the main printer attached to it.  What I am wanting to
>>     find out is how to set the remaining PC's up so they can print using
>>     this printer.  I have tried a google search for ideas, but found nothing
>>     that looks immediately useful.  I suspect it is a matter of getting the
>>     samba shares configured appropriately, but do not want to try fiddling
>>     with them in case I break something.  Any thoughts/ideas appreciated.
>>
>>     Colin
>>
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