Using Samba

[Anthony J. Gabrielson]

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.
> 
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