access printer on linux host from winxp guest (VMWARE 4.5.2)

[John Summerfied]

Paul Howarth wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 14:51 +0800, John Summerfied wrote:

> 
> 
> However, samba is capable of providing Windows clients with the driver
> they need for the printer (just like a Windows print server could),
> whereas cups cannot do this.
> 
> Paul.


cups serves up the PPD just fine. I'd not expect XP to need more than 
this (though I won't argue if someone argues it does).


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