[CLUE-Tech] Can I do this with samba?

[David Anselmi]

Jeffery Cann wrote:
> With samba, I have only accessed UNIX and Linux boxes from a Windows machine.  
> I want to go the opposite way for print services.
> 
>>From Linux (I use CUPS for printer services), I want to print to a printer 
> running on an NT server.  The printer is a Xerox copier / laser printer and 
> is not supported by Linux.
> 
> So, I figured I would set up my Linux box as an smb client, but I'm not 
> exactly sure how to do it.  Could someone post the high-level steps? (If this 
> is in fact possible).  I can RTFM from there.

SMB client stuff is all handled by the samba client utilities, probably 
a separate package from the server stuff.  Some of the utilities are 
smbclient, smbmount, and smbprint.  Once you have the package the man 
pages should tell you how to do what you want.

You can set up a queue in CUPS to use SMB and then it should behave just 
like any other printer you use.  Looks easy if you're using foomatic, 
don't know about others.  I've been using CUPS for less than a day so I 
don't quite grok all the pieces.

Probably CUPS is the way to go.  There are examples in the printing 
howto and print2win mini-howto of printing to windows through lpr.

Dave