Networking with Windows computers

After over 20 years of working in IT support in the Microsoft world, I'm buying an iMAC for my home computer and ditching the Microsoft box. However, my wife will continue to use her Windows machine, at least on the short term.
I currently have a shared printer connect to my PC. Once the iMAC is in place, the printer will be connected to it. Will it still be possible to share this printer with my wife's Windows 98 PC? (Ya, you read it correctly Windows 98 -- she likes it and doesn't want it upgraded.)
Rusty
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After over 20 years of working in IT support in the Microsoft world, I'm buying an iMAC for my home computer and ditching the Microsoft box.
Congratulations! What took you so long?
I currently have a shared printer connect to my PC. Once the iMAC is in place, the printer will be connected to it. Will it still be possible to share this printer with my wife's Windows 98 PC?
My answer is...I forget! If Windows 98 supports the lpr protocol, it can be done. But I forget if it does or not. If it does, it will be the old lpr which will send print jobs on port 515. Your iMac will be using cups which listens on port 631. The best bet would be to configure Windows 98 to send on port 631, but I don't think you can do that. You can start launchd listening on port 515 with:
$sudo service printer start
and that should start cups-lpd if a print job shows up there. There might be some configuration required, but I bet not.
I should remember this, I worked on a spooler that had Windows NT as a client, I think Windows 98 too. It's been too long, though. Sorry I can't give a definitive answer, but I think it should work if you start the printer (port 515) service.
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