Printer Driver Question

[shrubble]

If I map to a printer on a remote machine (like a print server for instance), are that printer's drivers being installed on my machine, or just a pointer to the driver on the other machine (meaning that the other machine is actually doing all of the work)?

If those drivers are being installed on my machine, is there a way in a Windows environment to avoid that and strictly use the drivers of the other machine?

Anyone have any good links that explain the whole driver-shared printer thing?

Thanks!



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[shrubble]

I answered my own question (can I give myself a star?!)...

Windows has an add-on service that emulates UNIX-like print processes (such as 'lpd'). By installing this service ('Print services for UNIX' or something like that) on the server and client, you can push print jobs into a remote machine's (the server) print queues without having the printer's drivers installed on the client.

Just a tiny bit tricky, but works very well.

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