Samba, was: Re: [ale] Setting a Windows machine to a Linux Printer

[terry at esc1.com (Terry Lee Tucker)]

Geoffrey Myers wrote:
> 
> Speaking of Samba, I'm curious.  I'm putting a machine together for my
> daughter, since she is 6 and plays many games, I plan to load Win95
> there.
> I don't want to  purchase another printer, so is it possible to
> network the Win95 box to my Linux server and print from the various
> Win95 software packages?  I've checked out the Samba web site, but not
> seen anything explicit regarding this.  I understand I can have my
> Linux box function as the print server, I just don't know if all these
> games and such that she uses will be able to print.  Anyone done this?
> 
> Until later: Geoffrey           geof at abraxis.com

Hi Geoffrey:

Yes, I am doing this now.  I have a win95 box and a linux server. I have
printers attached to both machines and I can print from the win95 box to
the linux printer or from the linux box to the win95 printer. It works
great.
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