----- Original Message ----- From: "Tony Gogoi" <tgogoi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > 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. > > > 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 ?????? The the linux print server in this mode is just a pass-thru to the printer, providing queueing and not much more. You can almost think of the linux print server as part of the cable between the windows boxes and the printer. The linux print server doesn't really care what printer it's connected to - it's just passing data through from a windows box that used the correct printer-specific driver to format the data. You can install the windows driver for you printer on the linux server and samba will allow users on windows boxes to load it when they connect to the shared printer, but linux isn't using that driver to talk to the printer. CD - : 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
