that's not how printing works. The desktop, no matter what OS, uses drivers to transform print into language that the printer understands. Print servers merely offer the printers as a share for spooling and pass the data off to the printer. Think of the print server as the phone company. The phone company will let you contact someone in France, but you still need to know the language to speak to them. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tony Gogoi" <tgogoi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Mauricio Silveira" <msilveira@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <linux-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 11:56 AM Subject: Re: Samba advice > Thanks Mauricio, and another question :-) > > > > No matter what printer you connect to a linux box running a samba > > server, all the windows workstations will print to the samba server as > > far as the drivers on each windows WS are correctly installed and > > configured. You may even make a copy of the newest driver to the samba > > server and setup it to offer these drivers automatically to the clients. > > > Why would a printer driver need to be installed on each Windows client ? > If a printer is installed and configured on Linux from the available Linux > printer drivers, will the performance of the printer be at least equal to > going the windows printer-driver way on each client? > - > : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
