Windoze to Linux printer sharing?

[Tony Arnold]

Chuk,

On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 09:11 -0700, Chuk Goodin wrote:
> On 4/12/05, Tony Arnold <tony.arnold at manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
>         Now what I would like is the other way around, to be able to
>         print from
>         Linux to a Windows box using cups!
> 
> Do you mean running cups on the Windows box? Because if not, you can
> already do that. 

Yes, that was my idea. Why, you may ask? I have a system that acts as a
print server for the rest of the family's computers (4 other machines in
total). The system is used as my desk top mainly, but the rest of the
family also use it. I like to run Linux on it, the rest of the gang like
to run Windows. What I would like is to be able to print from the other
machines to my server regardless of whether I'm running Linux or
Windows, preferably using the same print queues at the client end.

My thought was to run CUPS on the Windows system as I do on Linux, and
configure ipp printers on all my clients.

I guess the other way is to run a Samba server on Linux and make the
printers look as they do on Windows, but I fear problems with
authentication etc, but maybe this is unfounded, i.e., would I have to
maintain user names and password on my Linux box just so the gang can
print?

The real long term answer is to convert the rest of the family to use
Linux, but that really would be a major project:-)

Regards,
Tony.

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