On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 08:22 -0800, JC wrote:
is there any linux module out there that can accomplish this?
Thanks JC
On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Jeff Kinz wrote:
On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 06:36:54AM -0800, JC wrote:
Well, the reason i'm asking this because I got it to work in Windows 2003 Server where all my printers can "put" on the web (http://www.mywebsite.com/printers) so people who access http://www.mywebsite.com/printers can see all my printers, then they can connect and print to it. Of course I'll require username & password before they can access printer resources.
Fastest way to do this is "share" the printer with one of those Win boxes and let the web user's access it through that system.
Since everything else is already setup this reduces the amount of work you have to do to get it working.
---- I don't know of any Linux method of doing that but it probably would entail some apache methodology or a Rewrite Rule.
Samba is pretty much gonna be required for sharing resources to Windows users and within Samba, you can easily setup 'Point & Print' stuff where the driver is installed in the samba server printer share and then all a user need to do to access the printer (install the driver if necessary), is \SAMBA_SERVER_NAME\PRINTER_NAME
Perhaps you can accomplish the same thing with apache server once the above is working by doing something like this...
mkdir /var/www/html/printers /var/www/html/printers/printer_name
and in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf # at the bottom...
RedirectPermanent /printer/printer_name/ \ file://\\SERVER_NAME\PRINTER_NAME
but this is completely untested and I haven't a clue that this methodology would work (and of course you would have to have httpd running).
Craig