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Re: 2 printer questions.



On Wed, 21 Jun 2000 solomon@barak-online.net wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> 2 - This is not really related, but I'm curious. If I have a WIN-printer on a
> WIN98 networked machine, can I use the printer from a LINUX box on the
> network ?? I know that LINUX can't use a WIN-printer, but this is not really
> the same (or is it ??) since I would want to send a print job from the LINUX
> box to the WIN98 box (not directly to the printer) and let WIN98 handle the
> printing. Is this possible or am I way off track ??  BTW - the same question
> could apply to a WIN-modem on the WIN98 machine. Could the online connection
> be shared by the LINUX box even though LINUX can't use the WIN-modem directly

Use samba for that (and read the docs of course).

--Ariel
> ?? 
> 
> 
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> Date: 20-Jun-2000   Time: 21:47:16
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