Dec. 10th, 2002

tyggerjai: (Default)
So.
We have a couple of printers in the house, but only one of them is really suitable for bulk, on-demand work. The others are effete, modern, finicky hand-fed things.
There's a catch. The bulk one is the Mac printer.
Now, the interweb is full of solutions for getting Macs to print to other platforms. Samba, netatalk, whatever.

But it's curiously silent on the topic of getting a *nix box printing to a Mac.

Either this is because it's so trivial no-one mentions it, or because it's tentacular arcana of which man was not meant to wot.

Since I need to do it, it's almost certainly the latter.

The mac is a powermac 7200, currently running os9 and hooked up to the localnet via Ethertalk. It'll happily ftp/ssh to any other box on the net, so it's certainly happy networking wise.
What I need to do is export it's printing capability to the central linux server so everything else can then just use samba/lpd to print to the linux box, which will then send things to the mac.

Ideas, anyone?

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