From: Rao, Abhijit (Abhijit.RaoCDA.CANON.COM)
Date: Thu Apr 15 2004 - 11:31:02 CDT

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Check http://www.ebsnetinc.com/embedded-software-news-article.php?id=31

For SMB Printing - you do not have to install any drivers on PC - Windows OS comes SMB Client for Printing. Essentially once your SMB based Print Server is up an d running and you can print from any Windows PC. As Mike says it is better to reuse one of these solutions.

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From: Common Internet File System [mailto:CIFSDISCUSS.MICROSOFT.COM]On
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Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 12:56 AM
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Subject: Re: Help required on CIFS printing protocol

Anil D Raskar said:
> Could you please provide me the details of ms-rpc printing over the
> spoolss named pipe?

That would be quite a lesson. There are several complicated layers and the
documentation is not good. The closest thing you're going to find is a
book called "DCE/RPC over SMB" by Luke Leighton.

> Is it possible to implement it on the embedded board?

Sure. But a quick-and-dirty job would probably take a good programmer a
year or so to grasp the protocol details and get it working reliably
enough. The CIFS protocol is non-trivial. It would be much more practical
to use someone elses work. Depending on how much memory we're talking
about you might be able to strip down Samba enough to work on it. I
noticed this link in someones sig the other day:

  http://www.bluepeach.com/

It looks like exactly what you need. Unless you're a super-programmer with
masochistic tendencies I strongly recommend you use a canned solution.

Mike

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