[ale] Sharing non-network-capable printer

[Randy C. Ramsdell]

On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 17:32 -0400, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> 
> Not sure about the MAC side of this but I use a Linux box running
> Cups/samba to share out my USP HP printer to my linux boxes and my
> wife's windows laptop.  (She has to use windows for school)...
> 

We found the printing from this scenario absolutely too slow when
printing from windows systems to a Linux box /samba. I never found out
why this happened. This is why we switched to using a Linksys print
server. Have you noticed slow printing from a windows system?

> Thus spake Trey Sizemore (trey at fastmail.fm):
> 
> > Is it possible to share a printer that is not a network printer?  I
> > have a Linux box in one room with a physically attached (via USB)
> > Epson Stylux C84 and an Apple Mac Mini in another room that I want to
> > be able to use this printer.
> > 
> > Is it possible to make this printer available to the Mac?  The Mac
> > access the net wirelessly via a Netgear wireless router to which my
> > other machines are physically connected via Ethernet cables.
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Cheers,
> > Trey
> > ----
> >  
> > There is no time like the present for postponing what you ought to be
> > doing.
> >  
> > Linux salamander 2.6.11.4-21.9-default i686 GNU/Linux
> >   5:18pm  up 1 day 20:12,  4 users,  load average: 0.07, 0.10, 0.11
> 
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