[TriLUG] accessing a windows shared printer from linux

[Tanner Lovelace]

John Beimler wrote:
> and I have a Lexmark, Xerox and Canon printer, all attached to hp jet 
> direct boxes. Its a small external network box that allows you to print 
> to a network port, and then routes that to the parallel port.
> 
> Other companies make them, they aren't that expensive, and it can make 
> life much easier if you don't want to leave a computer on just so 
> everyone can share a printer. It doesn't do any queueing, but it can 
> make life easier.

I have a small netgear box that does the same thing.  It works, but
can be a bit flaky at times.  It works fine with our old HP Deskjet 500
but I finally moved the HP Deskjet 932C over to the samba server and
hooked it up using usb.

Cheers,
Tanner
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