No. Unless the linux server is going to be printing itself, you don't need any drivers installed. The drivers are loaded on the desktop. Ok, let's assume you have an HP printer with a jet direct card. Now, You can have your desktops print directly to it. You really have no unified control over the spool or security permissions. Alos, if traffic gets heavy, you can experience time out issues as the jetdirect card can only spool so much itself. Now, if you add a print server, the desktops send their print to the print server, it handles spooling and security and then it passes off the jobs to the printer as logn as it is willign to take them. The samba server doesn't do any data transformation. It is jsut a gateway. The print drivers on the windows desktop take your Word document and change it into the printer language your printer understands. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tony Gogoi" <tgogoi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Adam Lang" <aalang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <linux-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 4:55 PM Subject: Re: Samba advice > > > So, if the printer driver is installed on a Linux print server and a > windows client wants to print a colorful word document, there shouldn't be > any problems as the windows client sends the data to be printed in a > format the linux printer driver understands ?????? - : 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
