Linux® and Windows® Interoperability Guide

Summary

General print processing is that of streaming data from an application or file to a shared device. The data is queued on a spool file to serialize access to the physical device. The device could render the data on paper, fax, plotter, or another file. We saw that Windows XP and Red Hat Linux 7.1 each handle the details of this transfer in differing ways, but each may partake of print services offered by the other. We delved into a medium-level view of how printing works on each system. Then we covered configuration scenarios of local and networked printers on each operating system. Finally, we showed how to connect a printer service of one system to a client on the other type of operating system. There turned out to be four client-server ...