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Re: Continuing issues - Linux & NT 4 sharing a printer
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James Youngman)
Tue Oct 22 04:53:33 1996
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From: JYoungman@vggas.com (James Youngman)
Date: 22 Oct 1996 08:51:28 GMT
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In article <54h2u4$h91@halon.vggas.com>, hartr@interweft.com.au says...
>Having had it pointed out to me that I could use samba to export my
>printer from Linux, I have done that.
>
>I have set up two printer queues...as Linux print jobs require filtering
>and NT ones don't. This works fine under Linux and I can send text jobs
>to either queue (the filter program on lp0 is not producing colour yet,
>but I am sure that a read of the GS man will lead me to a fix of that for
>my HP850C.
>
>The queues are
[ ... ]
>Now, I can see the printer just fine under Win NT and install it on the NT
>machine just fine (during the install process it complains that there is
>no "NULL" printer driver on the remote machine and asks if I want to
>install it on NT).
>
>I answer yes and all goes smoothly - until I try and print a test page,
>when I get "The filename, directory name or volume label is invalid"!
>
>Ideas, suggestions? This is driving me nuts! I have to keep moving the
>printer cable from one machine to another...
No idea why NT is babbling about a NULL printer driver.
No idea what to do about that.
However, you clould always use smbclient as the filter for your
Linux printer queue to send it to the NT box. Maybe you should invest in a
switch-box not for sharing the printer but just while you set it up :)
PS: I'd be very grateful if you would post/make avaiable a summary of how to do
all this when you get it done, it might make a good addition to the Printing
HOWTO.
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