[Techtalk] CUPS/Slack/Samba/A printer and not quite understanding the manual

[Erica Sommer]

> The section that's relevant for you is "Printing to Windows Servers".
> It describes two methods with which you can print on a printer
> connected to a Windows machine:
> 
> 1. Let the Windows machine act as if it were a Unix print server,
> accepting the lpd protocol.
> 
> > Device URI: lpd://192.168.0.200/ipp 
> 
> Basically, that's what you tried, but the Windows machine wasn't setup
> properly for that. Either the service wasn't installed at all or it
> wasn't activated. For this method to work, you would have to
> install/activate the "TCP/IP Printing Services" on the Windows
> machine. I don't know whether this service is avaliable for all
> Windows versions, though.

TCP/IP printing is only available on the server-class Windowses.  
There are free and cheap lpr emulators available but I am not sure 
about lpd.  I think you'll have to go with SAMBA as the answer if 
Windows 98 is to be your print server. It's a fairly painless 
solution, fortunately.  But I am sure our security mavens will have 
some words of caution for you regarding SAMBA.

Regards,

-Erica
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