Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

[Mark Knecht]

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 1:41 PM, Paul Hartman
<paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote:
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>
> In my case I have a "winprinter", doesn't do anything without drivers,
> doesn't have native understanding of postscript or PCL or anything
> like that, isn't a network printer so it doesn't have its own IP
> address. Just a plain cheapo USB printer. Any printer sharing will
> have to go through the host machine, and it sounds like you're in the
> same boat as me. It's a USB printer so i just change the cable when i
> want to print, but that's not very elegant. It would be nice to just
> set it up and forget about it.
>

So that's like one of those old winmodems that only worked with
Windows drivers loaded?

> In my case I've got a gentoo desktop, a windows XP/Vista dual-boot
> deskop and a gentoo/XP64 dual-boot laptop.
>
> I just found this page on Google about doing this with Debian and it
> looks fairly simple. It does use Samba.
>
> http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Debian-and-Windows-Shared-Printing/sharing_with_windows.html
>

Looks helpful and boiled down from the 1000 lines in the Gentoo
version looks more manageable. If I have to go that way I'll report
back what I find. I'm trying to understand what Willie has point us
at.

Thanks,
Mark