11.7. From Windows.
11.7. From Windows.
Printing from a Windows (or presumably, OS/2) client to a Un*x
server is directly supported over SMB through the use of the
SAMBA package, which also supports file sharing of your Un*x
filesystem to Windows clients.
Samba includes fairly complete documentation, and there is a good
Samba FAQ which covers it, too. You can either configure a magic
filter on the Un*x box and print PostScript to it, or run around
installing printer-specific drivers on all the Windows machines
and having a queue for them with no filters at all. Relying on
the Windows drivers may in some cases produce better output, but
is a bit more of an administrative hassle if there are many
Windows boxes. So try Postscript first. Modern versions of
Samba should support the automagical driver download mechanism
offered by Windows NT servers to deal with this problem.