Alan.M.Wright wrote: > Ghee Teo wrote: >> Bill Shannon wrote: >>> Afshin Salek wrote: >>> >>>> Solaris CIFS server does not print sharing yet (only file sharing >>>> for now) so yes you'll need Samba for that. >>>> >>> >>> Well, I didn't expect the cifs server to do it, but I thought maybe >>> CUPS would handle it directly, like it does with lpd and ipp. >>> >> CUPS doesn't handle windows print share directly, it uses Samba, >> typically it requires a link of /usr/lib/cups/backend/smb to >> /usr/sfw/bin/smbspool. On Linux, this is done out of the box since CUPS >> is the only print system there. Our version of Samba is a bit dated, >> 3.0.x whereas the stable version of Samba from most Linux is 3.2.x. But >> this is hard acts for us to get uprev as it is now relicensed to GPL V3. > > Assuming that you mean when a Windows clients prints using a UNIX system > as a print server, that depends on how you specify/find your printer. I am thinking of the other way, Windows is the print server for Linux/Unix system. > If you > browse for a shared printer you may find it via Samba but SMB isn't a > native > CUPS protocol. I believe that CUPS natively supports IPP, JetDirect and > LPD. You can use IPP directly from Windows by specifying a local printer > on a TCP/IP port. That's is correct. But to do it the way I am talking about, you need Windows Print Share or via Samba.
-Ghee > > Alan > > _______________________________________________ cifs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/cifs-discuss
