Linux printing to a printer on Win98 System

[pnd]

I have Mandrake 7.1 running on one computer, and Win98SE on another. I have a Canon BJC-4200 connected to the Windows box. I have enabled the printer to be sharred (If I run Win98 on both machines, I can print to the Canon from either computer)

I can not seem to get Linux to print. There seem to be so many places where mistakes could be--(/etc/printcap, /etc/smb.conf)

Anyone got a good reference for setting up printing from Linux to Windows over a LAN?

 

[brewty]

printing howto (http://howto.tucows.com)
oreilly's samba book (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba/chapter/book/index.html)

hope that helps...

 

[Spiff]

you would need an LPR Daemon running on the Win9x system. NT has this capability, but Win9x I believe would need a third party utility.

 

[pnd]

None of the many documents that I have read have indicated that I need anything extra on the Win98 box (desides enabling print sharring). But then again nothing that I have tried has worked, so maybe they are leaving out that bit of information.

The only reason that I don't think that I need extra software is that one computer can print to the other computer's printer when both run Win98.

What I think I need is to find the right Samba config file setting that will allow Linux to send the print request in a form similar to the impulse Win98 sends.

Still no luck so far

 

[Workin']

This might help:

http://www.kneschke.de/projekte/ksamba/using_samba/ch07_02.html

Looks to be a pretty complete reference. I'd give it a shot but none of my printers work with linux.

 

[pnd]

I have been able to send text files to the printer hooked up to the Win98 box using smbclient. But I can not print anything meaningful.

Anyone have any luck printing output generated from Gnumeric or AbiWord to a printer on a Win98 computer.

Obviously, my network is working, samba is working, the printcap file is working. Do I now have a software problem or a samba problem, or a do I just need to know the right print command?

(I tried printing to a file, and then sending the file to the printer with smbclient, but all I get is hex code instructions intended for the printer as output.)