Printer question

Mike Starke plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Fri, 31 Jan 2003 11:57:48 -0500


On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 09:39:11AM -0700, Carl Parrish wrote:
/_Okay I have two linux boxes on the same network. There is no domain set.
/_do I need to have samba installed to use the printer from the computer
/_that does not have one?
/_
/_
Short answer is no. Samba would only be needed if you had a printer
hooked up to a Linux box, and you had a win box on the network that wanted
to print to it.

Two Linux boxes do not require samba. It just requires (on the client)
an entry in the /etc/printcap file.

v/r
-Mike