Allegedly, on or about 15 June 2013, Fred Smith sent:
Samba would be useful if you had windoze machines on the network
that
wanted to use the printer, assuming wanted to share it out from a
linux box.
I've always found dealing with Samba's shenanigans much more effort than
configuring Windows to print to a printer using HTTP/IPP (i.e. CUPS).
Quite apart from the mess that you need to deal with to get a printer
going through Samba, it's yet another thing in the middle, and it's
completely unnecessary.
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[tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
Linux 3.8.13-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon May 13 13:36:17 UTC 2013 x86_64
All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point
trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the
public lists.
George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not
a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments.