Installing a printer from a WinNT network

[iggystar]

I have an HP laserjet hanging off a printer that is in a WinNT Domain.

What do I need to do to get that printer to work on my linux box. When I tried to just "wing it" I got a message from Linux suggesting that I should install Samba, Since I dont know what Samba is, and since, in general, installing new things on Linux is a major pain, I wanted to ask you bright people before I went and did silly things on my own.

thanks in advance for any help you can give.

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

Well it all depends on how that printer is set up. If it supports tcp printing (lpr protocol) you can just set up a remote print queue without samba (i.e. print queue @ip address). HP also have an initiative on linux printing -->

http://hp.sourceforge.net/uhowto/eps-uhowto.php

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If you want to use traditional windoze printing, i.e. print to \\ntserver\hplaser or suchlike, you would indeed need samba (client) because samba provides the smb/cifs protocol support needed. Samba is basically both client & server software that provides connectivity to windows shares and enables a linux/unix box to act as a nt server and/or be a domain controller.

Rgds

 

[iggystar]

Thanks. Dont have the printer setup to just hit it's IP so I guess Samba it is