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Hello, If you check the samba mailing list - theres a lot about AIX. Hope thats help, Anthony On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, John Abreau wrote: > On Thu, 10 Feb 2000 Vincent Cocco <vcocco at admin.suffolk.edu> wrote: > > > I guess I need some clarification on a concept: > > What I have setup is a linux box running Samba; what I need is access to a > > printer. > > My idea was to use one of our laser printers connected to our AIX box. > > My question: I would use something like Samba running on my Linux box to > > access a printer on our IBM box, correct? > > While I'm not familiar with AIX, I would guess that it probably uses > either the BSD lpr or the SYSV lp print daemon, which you can access > directly from Linux (assuming there's no extra security layer restricting > remote access). > > Samba's printer function is to provide printer services to NT clients; > the Linux machine would have to already be able to print, and then Samba > would sit on top of that and pass print requests from NT clients to the > Linux print queue. > > I think there's also an SMB client that lets Linux print to an NT print > queue, but that would have no relevance to AIX. > > -- > John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix > Email: jabr at blu.org / URL: http://www.blu.org > ICQ#28611923 / AIM abreauj > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > "Working with NT is like trying to tune a watch wearing oven mitts. > You can't get your fingers inside like you can with UNIX. > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > - > Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with > "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the > message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored). > - Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored).
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