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  From: Daryl Pilkington <u3232@home.dialix.com>
  To  : linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 12:58:26 +1000 (EST)

Re: SAMBA

Thanks Michael,

I was thinking of hanging the printer directly off the samba server's
lpt port but your suggestion of:

* WINDOZE *         *     SAMBA  *         * lpd     *
*         *         *            *         * Printer *
* SMB     * SMB     *     SMB    *         *         *
* Network * ------> *     shared *         *         *
* Printer *         *     print  *         *         *
*         *         * +-- queue  *         *         *
*         *         * |          * TCP/IP  *         *
*         *         * +-> lpr    * ------> *         *
*         *         *            *         *         *

Is also known to work well with OS/2 clients.
Lpr printing is excellent with W2k clients.
Using the add-on lpr client from Axis, lpr printing is excellent from
Win9x.

Thanks for the other tips & utilities, I now have some reading to do.


On Wed, 17 Apr 2002 11:33:55 +1000, Michael Wardle wrote:
>
SNIP
>
>Yes.  The printer queue is still an lpr queue (or whatever type you want 
>it to be) on your Unix box, however Samba can let Windows clients talk 
>to it using the native Windows protocol.
>
>I'm not sure of the exact name of the service, but it's a standard 
>Windows service you can install in the networking control panel, and 
>it's available on the Windows installation media.  It's what is 
>(usually) already installed when you want to share files between Windows 
>hosts.
>
SNIP
>
>The server will still use lpr, but the Windows workstations/desktops can 
>use their own native printing mechanism.  I presume your concern 
>regarding being logged in is only relevant (if at all) to when the print 
>*server* is a Windows server, but I could be wrong.
>
>If you understand my point, and are still concerned by the robustness of 
>SMB printing, you should certainly try your lpr on Windows printing. 
>Have you tried this before?  Is the lpr client good?
>
>A tool that you might like to look at is SWAT.  It allows configuration 
>of Samba via a web interface, and it *might* even allow basic 
>administration of the print queue, but then there's probably options 
>like this (perhaps Webmin) for managing lpr queues in a web interface. 
>(Just a thought.)
>
>The other issue you may wish to investigate is:
>provided you're using Windows 98, Windows 2000, and higher, you may 
>prefer (or you may need) to enable SMB password encryption so your 
>passwords are not stored and/or sent in plaintext.  I'll let you read 
>about this one.
>

Regards,

Daryl  Pilkington 

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