Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-21 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 20 December 2008 20:53:48 Mark Knecht wrote: I did uncomment lines in /etc/cups/mime.convs and mime.types as per the numerous wikis around on configuring cups. If you need the specific lines let me know but all the wikis say to do it. That would be helpful - thanks. Off-list

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-21 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 2:25 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Saturday 20 December 2008 20:53:48 Mark Knecht wrote: I did uncomment lines in /etc/cups/mime.convs and mime.types as per the numerous wikis around on configuring cups. If you need the specific lines let me

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-21 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 10:57:43AM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: Again, I don't imagine ANY of what we're talking about here will work for a Windows machine printing to a Linux cups server if a Linux machine on the same network cannot print to that server. Technically not true. I had a

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-21 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Willie Wong ww...@princeton.edu wrote: On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 10:57:43AM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: Again, I don't imagine ANY of what we're talking about here will work for a Windows machine printing to a Linux cups server if a Linux machine on the same

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-21 Thread Willie Wong
snipped a bunch of questions I don't know the answer to On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 03:02:36PM -0800, Penguin Lover Mark Knecht squawked: I hope the question is at least reasonable as the data format at each point in the network is really unclear to me. Maybe there's a good site to read about

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 18 December 2008 15:48:25 Mark Knecht wrote: On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 2:24 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Tuesday 16 December 2008 21:48:50 Willie Wong wrote: Basically you just need [...] What else do we need if the printer is an HP DJ4260? This

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 20 December 2008 11:37:32 Peter Humphrey wrote: These are the USE flags I installed CUPS with: [ebuild R ] net-print/cups-1.3.9-r1 USE=acl dbus jpeg pam perl png python ssl tiff -X -avahi -gnutls -java -kerberos -ldap -php -ppds -samba -slp -static -xinetd -zeroconf

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-20 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 5:41 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Saturday 20 December 2008 11:37:32 Peter Humphrey wrote: These are the USE flags I installed CUPS with: [ebuild R ] net-print/cups-1.3.9-r1 USE=acl dbus jpeg pam perl png python ssl tiff -X -avahi

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 16 December 2008 21:48:50 Willie Wong wrote: Basically you just need [...] What else do we need if the printer is an HP DJ4260? This seems to need net-print/hplip installed, but I haven't been able to get this working; it seems I haven't resolved a misconfiguration between hplip

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-18 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: On Tuesday 16 December 2008 21:48:50 Willie Wong wrote: Basically you just need [...] What else do we need if the printer is an HP DJ4260? This seems to need net-print/hplip installed, but I haven't been able to get this working; it seems I haven't

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-18 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 2:24 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Tuesday 16 December 2008 21:48:50 Willie Wong wrote: Basically you just need [...] What else do we need if the printer is an HP DJ4260? This seems to need net-print/hplip installed, but I haven't been able

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-17 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 16 December 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi Willie, On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Willie Wong ww...@princeton.edu wrote: (Sorry if this one is a dupe... my SSH connection went kaplui and I wasn't quite sure whether the mail got sent) On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 01:04:25PM -0800,

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 8:10 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: I've now tested my Vista machine. It works fine and Vista actually had an HP driver for this printer so I used that driver since the Adobe postscript driver doesn't install on Vista. From Vista I can print in color on the

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 8:10 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: I've now tested my Vista machine. It works fine and Vista actually had an HP driver for this printer so I used that driver since the Adobe

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-17 Thread BRM
@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 4:53:43 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions? On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 8:10 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: I've now tested my Vista machine. It works fine and Vista actually had an HP driver

[gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-16 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I'm looking around for up to date instructions/wikis/howtos on how to set up Samba on my CUPS server to allow me to print from Windows. The two most expansive ones I found were here: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/quick-samba-howto.xml http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=110931

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-16 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm looking around for up to date instructions/wikis/howtos on how to set up Samba on my CUPS server to allow me to print from Windows. I'm also interested in this; I tried it a while back (from both directions;

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-16 Thread Neil Walker
Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I'm looking around for up to date instructions/wikis/howtos on how to set up Samba on my CUPS server to allow me to print from Windows. It's been a very long time since I was stupid enough to run Windows on any of my machines. However, when I did, I didn't have to

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm looking around for up to date instructions/wikis/howtos on how to set up Samba on my CUPS server to allow me to print from

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-16 Thread Dale
Neil Walker wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I'm looking around for up to date instructions/wikis/howtos on how to set up Samba on my CUPS server to allow me to print from Windows. It's been a very long time since I was stupid enough to run Windows on any of my machines.

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-16 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm looking around for up to date

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-16 Thread Willie Wong
(Sorry if this one is a dupe... my SSH connection went kaplui and I wasn't quite sure whether the mail got sent) On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 01:04:25PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: I'm looking around for up to date instructions/wikis/howtos on how to set up Samba on my CUPS server to allow me to

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 1:41 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP In my case I have a winprinter, doesn't do anything without drivers, doesn't have native understanding of postscript or PCL or anything like that, isn't a network printer so it doesn't have its own IP

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-16 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 04:48:50PM -0500, Willie Wong wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 01:04:25PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: I'm looking around for up to date instructions/wikis/howtos on how to set up Samba on my CUPS server to allow me to print from Windows. Why SAMBA? Also, a small

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-16 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi Willie, On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Willie Wong ww...@princeton.edu wrote: (Sorry if this one is a dupe... my SSH connection went kaplui and I wasn't quite sure whether the mail got sent) On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 01:04:25PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: I'm looking around for up to

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:48:11 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: I can get to the printers page on the server's Cups' GUI: http://192.168.1.59:631/printers It gives me a long, ugly descriptive name for the printer so I tried: lpr -P HP_PSC_1600_series_USB_1 optimize_mythdb.sh You may want to add

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-16 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 4:48 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Willie, On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Willie Wong ww...@princeton.edu wrote: (Sorry if this one is a dupe... my SSH connection went kaplui and I wasn't quite sure whether the mail got sent) On Tue, Dec 16, 2008

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:48:11 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: I can get to the printers page on the server's Cups' GUI: http://192.168.1.59:631/printers It gives me a long, ugly descriptive name for the printer so I tried:

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:48:11 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: I can get to the printers page on the server's Cups' GUI: http://192.168.1.59:631/printers

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:48:11 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: I can get to the

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-16 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:48:11 -0800,

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 5:46 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: You ever thought of using webmin? I think webmin will help set this up. Just a thought. Dale :-) :-) Honestly, there was nothing webmin was really going to do for me. There were two lines to be uncommented in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-16 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 5:46 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: You ever thought of using webmin? I think webmin will help set this up. Just a thought. Dale :-) :-) Honestly, there was nothing webmin was really going to do for me. There were two lines to

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-16 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 02:48:11PM -0800, Penguin Lover Mark Knecht squawked: On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Willie Wong ww...@princeton.edu wrote: Basically you just need 1) Correct permissions in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf a) You need the line Port 631 to allow remote access b)