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
