Just turn on sharing for the printer in Windows 95. Then use the print tool to
setup printing from your linux box.
On 14-Sep-99 Tom Berger wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have a tiny TCP/IP ether-network over here, consisting of my Linux box
> and my wife's Windows 95 (no comments, please ;)). The printer is attached
> to the Win95 box.
> The Win95 box has a telnet/ftp and a VNC server running.
>
> What I currently do when I want to print is:
>
> - uploading the file via ftp to the Win95 box
> - starting a VNC-client and tell the printer to print it
> - rebooting Win95 from VNC, because it locks the keyboard of the
> Win-machine :-\
>
> This seems quite awkward to me. Isn't there something like Samba for
> Windows (i.e. a print-server I can just send the files I want printed)?
> Oh, yeah, for free, of course ;-). Or maybe I can do that via telnet?
>
> Thanks
>
> tom
>
> --
> "Never trust a Shoggoth!"
> Thomas 'tom' Berger, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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