On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 10:30:25AM +0200, Erlend Bjørnson Barkbu wrote: | I've got a Hp Laserjet 5 in my network, it is shared on a | printserver to all the windows-machines on the network by its | WINS-name (//server/printer-of-some-sort) . | | How can I use this printer? | | I've tried to use samba, but I cant get it right | | Does anyone have a suggestion?
This printer is actually quite nice because it can handle Postscript Level2 natively. Is it on a JetDirect box? If so (like the one where I work) you can simply install CUPS and use socket://<ip>/ and specify the model as a "Raw Queue" (that is, no filtering -- the printer can handle the postscript). If not, install CUPS and the smblcient package and use a smb:// type uri. It should work just fine. I can print to the IIIp here over samba from CUPS, but I haven't tried it with a raw queue yet (the client filters it to PCL first before giving it to the server). HTH, -D
