[ale] Printing to a Windows share

[jcej at tragus.org (James CE Johnson)]

Lookup CUPS. I've been using it forever & it rocks!

> 
> In the "I could probably figure this out myself, but
> I got a 1040 with my name on it, and that's enough
> stress for one week" department:
> 
> At the moment I have to Samba files over to my
> NT (hack, spit) machine in order to print them
> on my wife's Win98 (retch, hurl) machine's printer.
> Of course, this sucks. Any pointers to some magic
> piece of software that will let me print directly
> to that printer from my Linux and BSD (sigh, purr)
> boxen? Or maybe I ought to hook the printer to
> a *nix box and let the M$ boxen print to it
> instead?
> 
> I'd be happy with a recommendation and a
> URL, if someone would be so kind.
> 
> TIA,
> 
> -- Joe
>   Using open-source software: free.
>   Pissing Bill Gates off: priceless.
> 
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