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Windows Compatibility and Mac OS X
Print servers
SMB/CIFS support also provides the basis for Mac compatibility with shared Windows
printers. Through Samba, shared Windows printers appear in the Mac OS X Printer
Setup Utility so they can be added to the Mac in the form of a local printer queue.
You can create a queue for as many shared Windows (and Mac) printers as you like,
and any application that can print on the Mac can print to the shared printer via the
queue. Printer vendors provide Mac drivers with new printers or make them available
on their websites, and for several hundred of the most of the popular printers, the
appropriate printer drivers are already included in Mac OS X, so you don’t need to
install any additional software.
It’s even easier to share a printer connected to your Mac with networked PCs. Just turn
on the Printer Sharing and Windows Sharing options in Mac OS X Sharing preferences.
The printer queues you’ve already configured for your Mac will be made available to
other Mac and Windows systems on the network. Windows users can create a queue for
a Mac printer the same way they do for a shared Windows NT printer server, using the
print wizard built into Windows. Because the Mac uses the same SMB/CIFS protocol as
Windows, no additional software is necessary on the Mac or PC.
Create a print
queue for a
Windows printer
using Printer
Setup Utility
Display
Windows
printers
Select a shared
Windows printer
Select the
network
domain in
which to
look for
printers
System Preferences
Sharing pane
Click to turn off
printer sharing
Activates
Samba (SMB)
Makes all print
queues on the
Mac available to
Windows users
Administrator privileges needed
to make or prevent changes
Select the printer
model (driver)
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