On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 09:29:07PM +0100, George wrote: | Heya People, | | I was wondering if there's any way I can get my linux box/server/gateway to to act as a something similar to a print server. | | Basically, I've got my windows box, 2 linux boxen, and a freebsd box | all hooked up to the server and the server is connected via parallel | to the printer. Is there anyway I can get the server to capture and | forward print requests from any of the workstations (irrespective of | OS, i.e no print filters on the server or anything, just request | forwarding)
I too use CUPS on my workstation/gateway (server, if you will). I use 'lp' locally to spool jobs, and samba to spool jobs from the windows box on the network. CUPS also supports the lpd and ipp protocols so if you have, for example, lp/lpd or lprng on the existing clients those can still be used. You may just want to use plain lpd (and samba to receive stuff from windows) and have it simply dump the data out the port without any driver stuff. One of the nice things with CUPS is it can take several different formats of input and then convert it to the format the printer understands. HTH, -D
