Unix-Linux Printing | Linux Today

Unix-Linux Printing

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 18, 2007

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Stride
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“Let’s face it: Unix-Linux (and vice-versa) printing is never
easy. There are always many alternatives to choose from when
planning your printing configuration, each with their own
advantages and disadvantages. Do you print local, direct-attached
or use Samba? How will your Windows clients print? What may be
easiest for you, as an administrator, may be cumbersome for an
end-user. Given a scenario of a network that requires its own
subnet exclusive to your Unix/Linux environment, how do we print
from Linux to a printer attached to a Unix server and vice-versa?
We’ll discuss some challenges and gotchas for tackling that
situation here…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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