s/charmaps/iso-8859-6.txt
/usr/share/cups/charmaps/iso-8859-7.txt
/usr/share/cups/charmaps/iso-8859-8.txt
/usr/share/cups/charmaps/iso-8859-9.txt
/usr/share/cups/charmaps/jis-x0213.txt
/usr/share/cups/charmaps/koi8-r.txt
/usr/share/cups/charmaps/koi8-u.txt
/usr/share/cups/charmaps/mac-roman.txt
/u
r to allow me to print from Windows.
Why SAMBA?
I've recently set up printing for a small home network following this
guide: http://www.owlfish.com/thoughts/winipp-cups-2003-07-20.html
Basically you just need
1) Correct permissions in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
a) You need the line "
c postscript driver.
>
> Is this true for non-postscript printers? If so it's a great solution.
I've never got option a) working myself... but allegedly it works. I
think the idea is that your CUPS server gets mapped as a "local"
printer on the Windows machine. So just
les which I masked a couple of days ago - the usb
>> problem was happening before though.
>
> I have exactly the same issue with my Epson Stylus SX218 printer
> connected via USB.
>
> I tried everything to get it to print with cups 1.6 but no success. At
> the moment to pri
appening before though.
I have exactly the same issue with my Epson Stylus SX218 printer
connected via USB.
I tried everything to get it to print with cups 1.6 but no success. At
the moment to print I start a Windows VM (Windows inside the VM sees and
installs the printer without problem) and connec
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Willie Wong 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
>> mac
/etc/cups/mimes files.
After that everything else was done on the Windows computers to get
this to work. I honestly didn't have to change much to get Windows
working. It was more finding out what driver to use on Windows so that
it would just talk to cups and then understand the format of t
ooking 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?
>
> I've recently set up printing for a small home network following this
> guide: http://www.owlfish.com/thoughts/winipp-cups-2003-
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
it to print with cups 1.6 but no success. At
>> the moment to print I start a Windows VM (Windows inside the VM sees and
>> installs the printer without problem) and connect to the shared printer
>> with cups.
> I've had some strange problems occasionally when I upgrade cu
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?
>>
>> I've recently set up printin
Richard Watson wrote:
> I've been able to print to a Gentoo Samba server (running a HP510) for ages
> from Windows workstations (98 and XP), and still can from Windows.
>
> I have an old laptop that I recently installed Gentoo and Gnome on as a
> workstation. When I
ly I need the RAW thing setup before that will work.
>
> - Mark
>
OK, now I'm thinking that maybe the stuff Willie was talking
about is accomplished by uncommenting the two lines in the
mime.conv/types files.
I set up a network printer from my Windows XP box pointing at the
Linux Cups s
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?
> >
> > I've recently set up p
HA!!! I just set up windows to print to cups direct (no samba) and may
be able to offer some insights.
to allow connection to the printer from your 192.168.0.0 network edit
/etc/cups/cupsd.conf to include the following:
#
# You may wish to limit access to printers and classes, either with Allow
for
more than that. There's also file sharing (since Windows 10 home doesn't
support NFS), central authentication, things like that.
I finally got it working in samba mode
so I'm good with that. And that, again, would skip the whole point of
having a central print server. :)
Not re
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 sin
t; I've tried adding a printer on my Vista laptop using Willie's
>> suggested setup but so far it doesn't contact the Linux printer.
>> Probably I need the RAW thing setup before that will work.
>>
>> - Mark
>>
>
> OK, now I'm thinking that maybe
s really going to do for me.
> There were two lines to be uncommented in the /etc/cups/mimes files.
> After that everything else was done on the Windows computers to get
> this to work. I honestly didn't have to change much to get Windows
> working. It was more finding out what
Windows to share solely using IPP, then you would not need
Samba, and it would be the same as configuring any CUPS client - at least
that's my untested thought.
CUPS can interact with Windows and other systems either in IPP mode or CIFS/IPP
mode. For CIFS/IPP mode you need Samba to provide the
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
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Paul Hartman
wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 3:04 PM, 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.
>
>
if you set it to broadcast, you won't have to set up the other linux
boxes...
On Sep 20, 2005, at 4:33 PM, Nick Rout wrote:
HA!!! I just set up windows to print to cups direct (no samba) and may
be able to offer some insights.
to allow connection to the printer from your 192.168.0.0 ne
>>> suggested setup but so far it doesn't contact the Linux printer.
>>> Probably I need the RAW thing setup before that will work.
>>>
>>> - Mark
>>>
>>>
>> OK, now I'm thinking that maybe the stuff Willie was talking
&g
clients to print to 192.168.0.86 by default
using CUPS in Gnome
I honestly spent a good portion of time searching for an answer, but
everything I could find to deal with CUPS + SAMBA + Windows, and also
one page explaining CUPS sharing + Linux using a GUI in Fedora (not a
standard Gnome GUI
things like that.
Ah! Fair enough. Since Samba is running you might as well use it for
printing.
> >> I finally got it working in samba mode
> >> so I'm good with that. And that, again, would skip the whole point of
> >> having a central print server. :)
> >
&
inting.
Seems that way to me. L)
I finally got it working in samba mode
so I'm good with that. And that, again, would skip the whole point of
having a central print server. :)
Not really. Athena would remain the CUPS server for itself and any Linux
or additional OS clients, sending jo
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 3:04 PM, 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.
I'm also interested in this; I tried it a while back (from both
directions
onto windows on my pc the printer works fine so
it is shared *ok* as such.
Thanks
Ian
PC - 2.6.12-gentoo-r10
CUPS - 1.1.23
SAMBA - 3.0.14a
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On Dec 16, 2005, at 3:57 pm, Bill Roberts wrote:
When I try to upgrade to the latest stable version of CUPS, portage
trys to
drag in X windows the cups ebuild, which has
seen some changes in USE variables.
Pay tell, what does `emerge -pv cups say? With this information we can
tell you
authenticate and send the data for
> > printing to the MSWindows PC and its shared printer.
> >
> > The same process will need to be followed by Janus; i.e. the CUPS server
> > on Janus will have to use the same smb:// URI to submit the data to be
> > printed to Athe
bs. I suppose I could change it to a generic
PostScript driver and tell Windows to do the rendering...
On lines 331 & 332:
I [11/Feb/2021:13:08:36 -0700] [Job 11] Started filter /usr/libexec/cups/
filter/hpcups (PID 92258)
I [11/Feb/2021:13:08:36 -0700] [Job 11] Started backend /usr/libexec/cups
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.
>
Sorry I have no instant answer except the following comments:
1. I'm betting linux will make a better print server than windows
2. racking up the logging level in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf should give you
some more clues to google on.
LogLevel info
is the standard, you have the following op
Did you try /etc/init.d/cupsd zap and see what happens. Also, sometimes a
reboot (shades of windows ) fixes cups.
>
> From: Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 2006/02/09 Thu PM 07:27:56 EST
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS not a
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 o
> -Original Message-
> From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 20 September 2005 22:33
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS: Sharing printers via IPP
>
>
> HA!!! I just set up windows to print to cups direct (no sam
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=1
time that
job hits the printer some other app hasn't come along and changed them
to something different ...
It would be fine, of course, if all apps used the CUPS printer dialog,
but my experience is that a lot of cross-platform apps use their own
because CUPS isn't there for a lot of th
This is the third in a series of at least 3 cries for help, each on a
separate sub-part of my goal of making sense of cups, lpd and Windows Vista.
I have a cups server on my gentoo system, and it serves its own jobs and
those of a WinXP host that's on my LAN. The XP host is set up to us
27;t such an issue. Now however I have more
> Windows boxes in the house and need to deal with this again so I'm
> sort of stuck.
>
> I see Neil says he did it without Samba but I've never heard of that.
> I thought the only way to make the cups stuff play on the network like
to work in your use
> >>> case:
> >>>
> >>> The Samba server, Athena, will use the MSWindows Network Printer
> >>> identified as "Windows Printer via SAMBA" in its CUPS GUI.
> >>>
> >>> Printing jobs will be submitted fr
uot; and Aficio FX16
This finally to a page where you can download the
'Printer & Scanner Drivers and Utility' for WINDOWS.
Download the .exe file e.g. for Windows XP.
Most probably it's a zip archive. Try (on Linux)
unzip -v
If it works, you only need the .ppd file which
this concept of RAW print
queues as brought up by Willie. I suppose the idea is that cups
doesn't do anything to data arriving on that interface and just sends
it to the printer? That way a windows machine might format a page
using its own driver and cups just passes the data on? Makes sense to
On Friday 16 December 2005 10:57 am, Bill Roberts wrote:
> When I try to upgrade to the latest stable version of CUPS, portage
> trys to drag in X windows.
Please post the results of
emerge -pvt cups
That will tell you the dependency chain that brings in X, if you know
how to read it.
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Zhang Weiwu wrote:
>Zac Medico wrote:
>
>
>
>>Zhang Weiwu wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>after a few test it looks obvious OO on gentoo suffer from the samiliar
>>>problem as oo on Windows (sorry to mension Windows again). On my gentoo
>>>
Hi Brett,
Yes, I zapped it and tried restarting it but I get complaints.
Thanks,
Mark
On 2/9/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Did you try /etc/init.d/cupsd zap and see what happens. Also, sometimes a
> reboot (shades of windows ) fixes cups.
>
> >
PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) - DANGEROUS
to arbitrarily flip
+ + samba : Adds support for SAMBA (Windows File and Printer sharing)
- - slp: Adds Service Locator Protocol support to CUPS
+ + ssl: Adds support for Secure Socket Layer connections
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Ernie Schroder wrote:
Compare USE flage in make.conf on working vs. non-working machines.
check use flags when you merged cups
# equery uses cups
[ Searching for packages matching cups... ]
[ Colour Code : set unset ]
[ Legend: Left column (U) - USE flags from
make.conf
When I try to upgrade to the latest stable version of CUPS, portage trys to
drag in X windows.
I'm not sure if this is caused by the changes happening in preparation for
the new version of xorg, or perhaps changes in the cups ebuild, which has
seen some changes in USE variables.
I mean
a
long time ago I tried this and don't recall what I had configured to allow
clients to print via the Windows PC. It was relatively simple and lightweight
though, unlike Samba which I wouldn't bother with just for printing.
> I finally got it working in samba mode
> so I'm
p-admin/usbview
sys-apps/usbmon
sys-apps/usbutils
etc..
many more usb sniffer too.
Just eliminate the possibilities.
I'd test it on a windows box if necessary too.
This all begs the question of how it was set up :
(after the usb issue is resolved).
hplip, cups, *sane*, ???
hth,
James
On (16/12/05 10:57), Bill Roberts wrote:
> When I try to upgrade to the latest stable version of CUPS, portage trys to
> drag in X windows.
>
> I'm not sure if this is caused by the changes happening in preparation for
> the new version of xorg, or perhaps changes in the cu
inter driver expects the client to do
> all the rendering and deliver only finalized printer instructions when
> it receives network jobs. I suppose I could change it to a generic
> PostScript driver and tell Windows to do the rendering...
I think the problem arises if you layer one printer
On Sunday 13 April 2008, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> This is the second in a series of at least 3 cries for help, each on
> a separate sub-part of my goal of making sense of cups, lpd and
> Windows Vista.
>
> I'm trying to use webmin to look at CUPS administration.
I would
messag:
/usr/libexec/cups/filter/pstoraster failed
The hardware is Okay (tested by 'cat text_file > /dev/usb/lp0' as well
as 'escputil -uc -r /dev/usb/lp0'). This printer also prints if it's
connected to Windows, so printer is okay too.
I checked cups error_log bu
some other moronic user miconfig...
It's really a kick in the pants that my very first post on this thread
Showed that stupid typo... I never would have seen it I guess, if you
had not. But it was there in my very first post... looking back it
appears glaringly right their in my posted `
f IPP vs Samba via a
> > brief Google, but maybe I'm just not searching very well.
>
> I would think Samba would be more an option for when you already have a
> Windows/Samba domain running for the network that everyone authenticates
> through. Granted, as another poster provide
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.
er provided, you can enable
public/guest access, which would make it like a Win9x/Me printer share
though XP should do fine with it.
However, I think CUPS/IPP would be a better option. It's very easy to
configure (I just followed the Gentoo guide for it). And it makes it
very easy to install
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Neil Bothwick 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, ug
On 18:49 Fri 16 Dec , Rumen Yotov wrote:
> On (16/12/05 10:57), Bill Roberts wrote:
> > When I try to upgrade to the latest stable version of CUPS, portage trys to
> > drag in X windows.
> >
> > I'm not sure if this is caused by the changes happening in prepar
x27;s own Windows drivers. 50 Linux users of all sorts and
different distros could not get this bitch to work.
Enter the age of network printing protocols. We have IPP running on port
631, something else that is supposedly HTML with huge amounts of extra
printer-specific stuff, JetDirect, and many
péntek 08 szeptember 2006 12.31 dátummal Helmut Jarausch ezt írta:
> On 8 Sep, Stefán István wrote:
> > Hello!
> > We have a printer stated in $subject, and looking for a cups driver for
it.
> > Does anyone know which driver can we use for it?
> >
>
> Just try
nter and also my
> > smb://userid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/pcname/printer
> > (with also the lpd version) but that does not work either, I just get
> > either
> > access denied or just sticks at 21% printer (on the test printer part of
> > cups) and then it says that the
Hi All,
This should be easy to answer, but I have had zero experience with Samba so
far and can't readily find the answer:
I have set up a Samba server for a small office and used 'browseable No'
extensively in the smb.cfg file, to remove a lot of otherwise visible to the
James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> newsguy.com> writes:
>
>
>> I haven't used cups for quite a while and haven't been paying
>> attention to cups related posts here but a search on gmane indicates
>> there isn't much going on.
>
> I rece
CUPS Web interface.
Once I had that working, I just setup the CUPS client.conf per the directions,
and all my other Linux systems came on-line with the printer immediately
without any problems.
I haven't really touched the clients since, though I might need to when I get
my Epson printer confi
print
test page" from the CUPS web interface so I know the printer is
working.
The funny thing is that I can also print to this local printer from
other machines - Linux and Windows via IPP/CUPS.
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But there is no usb USE option for cups:
# equery u cups
[ Searching for packages matching cups... ]
[ Colour Code : set unset ]
[ Legend: Left column (U) - USE flags from make.conf
]
[ : Right column (I) - USE flags packages was installed with ]
[ Found these
; dreary Sunday.
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. Possibly this
at least partially an issue about the printer being 'publ
Hello,
This follows from the printing-from-windows thread; it's not confined to
Windows.
Thanks to Mark K for his help so far. To recap:
My network server box has two USB printers attached: a Kyocera FS1020D
laser, which works just fine, and an HP Deskjet D4260, which doesn't: I can
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 8:10 PM, Mark Knecht 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
> col
Zhang Weiwu wrote:
after a few test it looks obvious OO on gentoo suffer from the samiliar
problem as oo on Windows (sorry to mension Windows again). On my gentoo
there is only one printer installed on cups that is a LaserJet. Later I
discovered all PS files I provided are grayscale, and there
On Monday 14 April 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Sunday 13 April 2008, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> > This is the second in a series of at least 3 cries for help, each on
> > a separate sub-part of my goal of making sense of cups, lpd and
> > Windows Vista.
> >
> &g
On Friday 20 January 2006 15:46, Statux wrote:
> I, personally, refuse to use CUPS because I can't get it to do raw
> text-only printing (ala my Oki Microline 320 Turbo). I use LPRng
> instead :/
This is definitely possible with CUPS - just create a queue and select "Raw"
Zac Medico wrote:
> Zhang Weiwu wrote:
>
>>
>> after a few test it looks obvious OO on gentoo suffer from the samiliar
>> problem as oo on Windows (sorry to mension Windows again). On my gentoo
>> there is only one printer installed on cups that is a LaserJet. Later
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 16:55:51 +1200
Nick Rout wrote:
> from
> http://www.linuxprinting.org/kpfeifle/LinuxKongress2002/Tutorial/VI.CUPS-Connections/VI.tutorial-handout-cups-connections.html
>
>
> "The "smbspool" program is provided with SAMBA starting with SAMBA
&
[3] http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kdebase/kdeprint/cups-ipp-support.html
[4] http://linuxprinting.org/printer_list.cgi
[5] http://www.owlfish.com/thoughts/winipp-cups-2003-07-20.html
[6] http://www.cups.org/windows/
hth,
James
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it via a parallel port or USB. The Linux is a client. Go to MSWindows
Control Panel/Add-Remove Windows Components/"Other Network File and Print
Services", then Details and select "Print Services for Unix". Then go to
Printers and Faxes and right click to share the printer, giv
my goal of making sense of cups, lpd and
> > > Windows Vista.
> > >
> > > I'm trying to use webmin to look at CUPS administration.
> >
> > I would not recommend this route, as I do not trust Webmin to not
> > obliterate my various configs. The CUPS fro
eans you will need cups. I don't know if you somehow could
still print when it is not configured.
> Just to make things clear, I utterly detest cups, with its arrogance,
> its wierd, non-standard, and its non-text-based configuration. Surely
> I'm not going to be faced by the c
Either inkjet or low-cost laser.
Thanks
Carl Adams
I have a Brother HL-5140, it is working fine with CUPS through SAMBA,
because the machine is attached to a Windows XP PC, and I have linux in
an old Toshiba Satellite 2590CDT Laptop PC.
When you review the list of foomatic ready, you will see also
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
Nick and Michael,
Thanks for the information, I shall try it out tonight.
Cheers again
Ian
>
> On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 16:55:51 +1200
> Nick Rout wrote:
>
>> from
>>
http://www.linuxprinting.org/kpfeifle/LinuxKongress2002/Tutorial/VI.CUPS-Connections/VI.tutorial-hando
between hplip and cups.
(Thanks for your description - it's enough to get my laser printer working.
Not the inkjet, though.)
--
Rgds
Peter
This is the first in a series of at least 3 cries for help, each on a
separate sub-part of my goal of making sense of cups, lpd and Windows Vista.
I have cups (fully updated) running successfully on my Gentoo system, except
for one thing: sometimes a job fails to print at first ( don't b
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 7:25 AM, Stroller wrote:
>
> On 6 September 2011, at 10:12, Alex Schuster wrote:
>> ...
>>> Just to make things clear, I utterly detest cups, with its arrogance,
>>> its wierd, non-standard, and its non-text-based configuration. Surely
>&g
her one. Big projects
> > need to support CUPS, because they need to work for everyone (or as
> > many as possible). It makes no sense *at all* to support more printing
> > systems.
>
> It enables more people to use it.
Yes. that's you and...?
All binary distros use cup
n able to get this working; it
> seems I haven't resolved a misconfiguration between hplip and cups.
>
> (Thanks for your description - it's enough to get my laser printer working.
> Not the inkjet, though.)
>
>
I use that exact printer. I set mine up with hp-setup
ven't been able to get this working; it
> seems I haven't resolved a misconfiguration between hplip and cups.
>
> (Thanks for your description - it's enough to get my laser printer working.
> Not the inkjet, though.)
>
> --
> Rgds
> Peter
>
Peter,
Is the DJ42
mber was a user home directory.
Well, I would have assumed that cups-pdf would be necessary for printing to PDF, but I
would like to see a screenshot of this "default empty field".
Stroller.
No, cups-pdf has nothing to do with it as I just described it is build-in functionality when you
s
>an IPP printer as the Network Server's CUPS server is the IPP host. This is
>what I did for my HP DeskJet 950C and I have access to it everywhere - the
>Vista64 system can find it, but can't locate a driver for it.
HTH,
Ben
- Original Message
From: Peter Hum
merging cups with +zeroconf allows it to
respond to service discovery requests. By default CUPS uses
mDNSResponder, which is Apple's implementation; with +avahi is uses
avahi instead. This means any Mac on your network will automatically
see CUPS printers, as will any Linux client with av
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 02:39:09PM -0700, Penguin Lover Kevin O'Gorman squawked:
> What I want now is to let my wife's Windows Vista laptop use the printer.
> I've seen how to set up an LPD printer in Vista, and it's a bit easier than
> it was in XP. However, it doe
work,
but, I'm not sure when it quit working (probably an
upgrade to cups. None of my system can print to this
ethernet based print, with lpr and a ascii file.
Windows can. All other Gentoo printing is fine to this
printer(web, kpdf, ghostview etc etc).
When I print a test page from
ing is that the printer is such an immaculate
example of printing perfection that linux is going to give me absolute
hell getting it working.
I will be sthocked if I can get it working in less than two weeks
working full time and without influcting a migraine and/or an ulcer on
myself
mic IP won't work either.
>
> So, I guess what I'm wondering is if there's any way to make this
> work, or if I'm SOL?
>
It would seem that people are thinking about this problem just a bit
too hard. Here is how my network is setup. All users have DHCP addys,
its a
ed 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 and cups.
>
>Is the DJ4260 accessible on the cups server using the LPR -
with avahi properly
installed. Windows machines with iTunes or Safari installed probably
have Bonjour as well, so they'd also benefit.
On a side-note: CUPS 1.4 stopped supporting Avahi and only supports
Apple's implementation, so the Gentoo devs have disabled zeroconf
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