USB printer connection

[Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.]

On 06/16/2013 07:21 AM, Tim wrote:
> Allegedly, on or about 15 June 2013, Fred Smith sent:
>> Samba would be useful if you had windoze machines on the network that
>> wanted to use the printer, assuming wanted to share it out from a
>> linux box.
> I've always found dealing with Samba's shenanigans much more effort than
> configuring Windows to print to a printer using HTTP/IPP (i.e. CUPS).
>
> Quite apart from the mess that you need to deal with to get a printer
> going through Samba, it's yet another thing in the middle, and it's
> completely unnecessary.
>
I have never used SAMBA....but I've always been told (by Windows admins 
no less!...LOL!) that it was the easiest thing in the world to use....is 
it not so?....


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