On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 7:02 AM, Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am seting up samba on a home LAN on which there are no Windows > PCs. Why? I have several Debian Etch boxes and several Mac OS X > boxes, For many years I have used netatalk to share files and > printing, but my daughter has a new Mac laptop that came loaded with > Leopard. Leopard won't talk nicely to netatalk. At least I can't make > it work. Reports on the internet claim that Macs will connect to a > Windows networks via NetBIOS. So, I want to use Samba, and fake out a > recalcitrant Leopard. But for printer sharing, samba seems to need a > print driver that is copied from one of the client Windows PCs. But as > I said, above, I don't have any Windows PCs. It there a legal > work-around for this situation?
There's no need to use Samba printing at all - since Mac OSX uses CUPS as the default printing solution, then run CUPS in the Debian boxes wherein the printer would be attached. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
