USB printer connection

[Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.]

On 06/16/2013 10:23 PM, Tim wrote:
> Tim:
>>> I've always found dealing with Samba's shenanigans much more effort
>>> than configuring Windows to ....
> Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.:
>> 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?....
> Probably easier to manage than what they're used to doing (Windows
> making you juggle straight razors, without handles, soaked in petrol,
> above a naked flame).
>
> While it wasn't too hard (using Samba) to share in one direction, it was
> a nuisance to have to add users on each client (because Samba handled
> users separately than the system), and the mucking around that was
> needed to configure printer drivers to run a printer through it...
>
> Everything about printing on Windows was a pain in the arse.  Each
> client needed the printer set up on, and drivers configured on each
> client.  Compared to Linux just needing the printer set up on the
> computer it was attached to, and all the clients sending standard
> printer data to the CUPS server that was automatically found by all the
> clients.
>
> Samba may have improved since then, but the mentality of it was all
> wrong (done in the Windows mindset).
>
> Don't drag Linux down to their level.
>
WOW!....going off of those statements....then why is SAMBA still 
around?,,,I always thought the Open Source Universe was about finding 
and using software that "Just Worked"?...hmm.....gonna have to look into 
this stuff!


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